Robert Goldsand

A student of Camella Horn, Joseph Marx, Emil von Sauer, and Moriz Rosenthal, Goldsand launched his performing career at age 10, in November 1921, with a concert in Vienna.

Upon leaving Vienna to flee the Nazis — his parents were both Jewish — he settled in the United States in 1939, where he gave concerts and took a teaching position at the Cincinnati Conservatory.

Bach's Goldberg Variations through works of major 19th-century composers such as Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Schubert.

[4] Goldsand taught many students during his long tenure at the Manhattan School including Suezenne Fordham [5], Neil Galanter, Harris Goldsmith [6], Donald Isler, Anne Koscielny [7], Thomas Schumacher [8], and Ralph Votapek [9].

[11] Goldsand's passion for Beethoven had a major influence on his pupils, particularly in the case of Dr. Kevin Moore, a prominent professor of piano at Onondaga Community College in upstate New York.