Gisella Selden-Goth (6 June 1884 – 5 September 1975)[1] was a Hungarian author, composer[2] and musicologist who became an American citizen in 1939.
[3] She composed at least four string quartets[4] and donated her large collection of original music manuscripts to the Library of Congress.
[4][7] Her set of piano compositions, Vier Präludien, was one of 10 winners (out of 874 submissions) in the 1910 Signale für die musikalische Welt competition in Germany.
[4][10] She maintained a lengthy correspondence with the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, often discussing their mutual interest in collecting original music scores.
After Zweig's suicide, Selden-Goth commented that, "A chamber group in a house or the opportunity to hear a good orchestra might have relieved the tension of that mind tortured by personal forebodings and by the vision of mankind in agony.