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20-599: Adolf Busch and his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin moved to Vermont in the 1940s as refugees from the Third Reich (Adolf Busch, who was not Jewish, left Germany as he was in opposition to National Socialist rule.) They became close friends of Walter Hendricks , who founded Marlboro College on the site of a former dairy farm. He asked their advice on the formation of a music department. On their advice, he recruited Marcel Moyse , Louis Moyse and Blanche Moyse - also refugees, and ill-situated - to Marlboro. Busch, Serkin, and

40-460: A Choral Fantasy.' We needed the catharsis." Also, the Festival still commemorates Busch's birthday, August 8, with a special concert. 42°50′21″N 72°43′56″W  /  42.839049°N 72.732234°W  / 42.839049; -72.732234 Adolf Busch Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German-Swiss violinist , conductor, and composer. Busch

60-601: A rigorous audition process to be accepted. Prominent musicians associated with Marlboro have included Pierre-Laurent Aimard , Emanuel Ax , Joshua Bell , Jonathan Biss , Anner Bylsma , Pablo Casals , Nikki Chooi , Jeremy Denk , Leon Fleisher , Gary Graffman , Hilary Hahn , Mieczysław Horszowski , Gilbert Kalish , Anton Kuerti , Lang Lang , James Levine , Yo-Yo Ma , Mischa Maisky , Viktoria Mullova , Siegfried Palm , Murray Perahia , Lara St. John , Richard Stoltzman , and Sándor Végh . Marlboro has had enormous influence on American chamber music. The Guarneri Quartet

80-606: A summer school lasting from July 1–13, with few students, that is "not regarded part of the 'official' Marlboro canon". The following year, Busch and Serkin "turned down an invitation to the Edinburgh Festival to concentrate on their own project," says Potter. They attracted 54 "participating artists" (students) in what is now recognized as the first Marlboro summer festival. After Busch's untimely death on June 9, 1952, Serkin devoted great attention to continuing his beloved father-in-law's work; he became its guiding light for

100-696: Is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven . Goode was born in the East Bronx , New York . He studied piano with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Frank , and Nadia Reisenberg at Mannes College - The New School for Music (where he is a faculty member), and Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . He has made many recordings, including several Mozart piano concerti with

120-520: The Busch Quartet , which from the 1920–21 season included Gösta Andreasson, violin, Karl Doktor, viola, and Paul Grümmer , cello. The quartet was in existence with varying personnel until 1951. The additional member of the circle was Rudolf Serkin , who became Busch's duo partner at 18 and eventually married Busch's daughter, Irene, 1935 in Basel. The Busch Quartet and Serkin became the nucleus of

140-542: The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the music of Schubert , Schumann , Brahms , and Bach . Goode was the first American-born pianist to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas . He regularly appears at the world's leading venues. He premiered works written for him by Carlos Chávez , George Perle , Robert Helps , and others. His chamber-music partners included Dawn Upshaw , Richard Stoltzman and Alexander Schneider . From 1999 to 2013, Goode

160-543: The Busch Chamber Players, founded in Basel, a forerunner of modern chamber orchestras. In 1927, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Busch decided he could not in good conscience stay in Germany, so he emigrated to Basel , Switzerland. Busch was not Jewish and was popular in Germany, but firmly opposed Nazism from the beginning. On 1 April 1933, he repudiated Germany altogether and in 1938, he boycotted Italy. As

180-514: The Concerti grossi, op.6 by Handel; his recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos brought them to prominence after many years of relative obscurity. He had a highly individual tone and great technique. Among his students were Stefi Geyer, Erica Morini and Yehudi Menuhin . As a composer, Busch was influenced by Max Reger . He was among the first to compose a Concerto for Orchestra, in 1929. A number of his compositions have been recorded, including

200-617: The Grosse Fuge, Opus 133; an arrangement was recorded by the Busch Chamber Players, with Busch leading from the first violin desk. Busch was a great soloist, as well as a chamber musician, and live recordings exist of him playing the Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorák and Busoni Concertos, as well as the Brahms Double Concerto. In the studio he recorded concertos and chamber orchestra performances of Bach and Mozart, and of

220-660: The Marlboro Music School and Festival has been led by Artistic Co-Directors Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss . During non-summer months, the festival runs the Musicians From Marlboro national touring program, with performances in many U.S. cities each year. A tradition Serkin began of ending the summer with a performance of the Beethoven Choral Fantasy (Beethoven) - in which most participants, even non-singers, joined in

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240-513: The Moyse trio are the recognized founders of Marlboro Music, through their association with the college. But it was Busch, writes biographer Tully Potter, who provided the first impetus, as he "had long wanted to create an environment in which professional players and rank amateurs could make music together, studying the chamber literature in depth and giving concerts only when and if they wished to do so." An attempt to realize this wish came in 1950 with

260-647: The Nazis tried to convince him to return to Germany, he declared that he would "return with joy on the day that Hitler, Goebbels und Göring are publicly hanged." In 1935, he became a Swiss citizen of Riehen , Basel. During 12 years in Basel and besides his many concerts around the world, he founded a chamber orchestra in Basel, was a co-founder of the Lucerne Festival in 1938, together with Arturo Toscanini and his conducting brother Fritz Busch , and taught many students in Basel, among them Yehudi Menuhin . On

280-526: The Violin Concerto (A minor, opus 20, published 1922), String Sextet (G major, opus 40), Quintet for Saxophone and String Quartet, Violin Sonata No 2, Op. 56, Clarinet Sonata, and several large scale works for organ. Regarding the last, Busch once remarked that if he could come back after his death he would like to return as an organist. He was the son of the luthier Wilhelm Busch; brother of

300-482: The chorus - was discontinued with his death in 1991, but was reinstated a few years later. As then co-director Richard Goode told Alex Ross, "Many people felt that Serkin playing the Choral Fantasy was a unique experience that could never be duplicated. After he died, the work was retired, and I thought that was the right decision. To my surprise, a few years later people said, 'You know, I think we have to have

320-548: The conductor Fritz Busch , the cellist Hermann Busch , the pianist Heinrich Busch and the actor Willi Busch, father in law of the pianist Rudolf Serkin and maternal grandfather of the pianist Peter Serkin and the cellist Judith Serkin. An exhaustive two-volume biography of Busch by Tully Potter was published in 2010 by Toccata Press In November 2015, Warner Classics released a 16-CD collection of Busch's recordings of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and other composers. Richard Goode Richard Goode (born June 1, 1943)

340-786: The outbreak of World War II , Busch emigrated from Basel to the United States in 1939, where he eventually settled in Vermont . There, he was one of the founders with Rudolf Serkin of the Marlboro Music School and Festival . The Busch Quartet was particularly admired for its interpretations of Brahms , Schubert , and above all Beethoven . It made a series of recordings in the 1930s that included many of these composers' works for string quartet. In 1941, it set down three Beethoven quartets that it had not previously recorded, including Opus 130. The Busch Quartet never recorded

360-409: The rest of his life. He valued Marlboro's small size and rural environment, inviting colleagues to come to, says Ross, "lose their worldliness, to fall into a slower rhythm." Marlboro's purpose moved away from Busch's idea of amateur participation; instead leading professionals from both solo and orchestral positions work with young musicians of the highest promise and achievement, who must pass through

380-828: Was born in Siegen in Westphalia . He studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Willy Hess and Bram Eldering . His composition teacher was Fritz Steinbach but he also learned much from his future father-in-law Hugo Grüters in Bonn. In 1912, Busch founded the Vienna Konzertverein Quartet, consisting of the principals from the Konzertverein orchestra , which made its debut at the 1913 Salzburg Festival. After World War I , he founded

400-513: Was formed at Marlboro in 1964; Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, a long-standing duo, concertized together as a duo for the first time at Marlboro, on August 3, 1973. (Ma, incidentally, met his wife Jill there, one of many musical couples to meet at Marlboro.) Other groups associated with Marlboro in various ways have included the Emerson Quartet , Juilliard Quartet , Orion String Quartet , St. Lawrence Quartet , and Beaux Arts Trio . Since 2018,

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