Alexander Goldscheider

He read music at Charles University in Prague, and received a PhD for his analysis of the music of The Beatles in 1975.{{Cite web |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5e71/e52c55d12d9db96912d1204f67438d9cf045.pdf |title=Acta Universitatis, Page 193, No. 76 (Goldscheider, Alexander: Problematika hudební formy v populární hudbě, 1975. PhDr.) |access-date=2017-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041332/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5e71/e52c55d12d9db96912d1204f67438d9cf045.pdf |archive-date=2017-12-01 |url-status=dead }} Initially a music writer, critic, and radio/club DJ (1968–73), he moved into songwriting and music production, becoming a staff producer at Supraphon (1976–79), where he produced a number of pop, rock, and jazz LPs of Czech singers and bands. He pioneered the use of synthesizers in Czechoslovakia and his music was released by Panton Records and Supraphon,{{Cite web|url=https://www.supraphonline.cz/umelec/4995-alexander-goldscheider|title=Alexander Goldscheider - Všechna alba|first=SUPRAPHON|last=a.s|website=Supraphonline.cz|access-date=May 27, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/label/43720-Panton|title=Panton|website=Discogs|access-date=May 27, 2019}} used on TV and in films.

He moved to London in 1981, recorded two solo albums (Themes for a One-Man-Band Vol. 1 & 2),{{Cite web|url=https://api.discogs.com/artists/1039405|title=Alexander Goldscheider|website=Discogs|access-date=May 27, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e0b884e9-94c6-4a6e-976e-da87a66d31d9|title=Alexander Goldscheider - MusicBrainz|website=musicbrainz.org|access-date=May 27, 2019}} and in 1983 worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop producing his own music for radio, TV, and films. Goldscheider then co-founded a music and computer company Romantic Robot,{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=%5ERomantic+Robot+UK+Ltd$|title=Romantic Robot UK Ltd - World of Spectrum|website=www.worldofspectrum.org|access-date=May 27, 2019}} which initially designed and sold hardware (Multiprint, Videoface, Multifaces 1, 2, 3, 128 and ST) and published software (Music Typewriter, Trans-Express, Genie, Wriggler) for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Atari ST computers.

Romantic Robot{{Cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/label/6417b62d-a53f-40fb-bd2a-fe52aaac38ff|title=Romantic Robot - MusicBrainz|website=musicbrainz.org|access-date=May 27, 2019}} became a recording label in 1991, when Goldscheider produced and released a 2-CD set of music written and performed in a Czech concentration camp –Terezín: The Music 1941-44. The set included children's opera Brundibár by Hans Krása, which has since been staged, recorded, and filmed all over the world. In addition to producing another CD (An American in Prague – Aaron Copland conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra),{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/An-American-Prague-Aaron-Copland/dp/B005O86I36|title=An American in Prague|date=May 27, 1973|access-date=May 27, 2019|via=Amazon}} Goldscheider has since concentrated on writing, performing, and producing his own compositions, recording classical singers, large choruses, and the Romantic Robot Orchestra on CDs such as Stabat Mater and The Song of Songs, with occasional detours into web design.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jiribelohlavek.com/|title=Jiri Belohlavek - Conductor|website=www.jiribelohlavek.com|access-date=May 27, 2019}} In June 2018, British record company Little Beat Different released his eponymous vinyl LP Alexander Goldscheider.{{Cite web|url=https://littlebeatdifferent.bandcamp.com/album/alexander-goldscheider-lbdissues002|title=Alexander Goldscheider - LBDISSUES002, by Little Beat Different|website=Little Beat Different|access-date=May 27, 2019}} The first part of his memoirs Intended Coincidences was published in Prague in July 2020.

Alexander Goldscheider's grandson Ben Goldscheider is also a musician. He won the Brass Category Final of the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition, playing the French horn.{{cite web|title=Ben Goldscheider|url=https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/artiste/ben-goldscheider/|website=Verbier Festival|publisher=Fondation du Verbier Festival|access-date=2 February 2018}}{{cite web|title=Praise from Barenboim delights young musician – and his grandfather|url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/music/praise-from-barenboim-delights-young-musician-and-his-grandfather-1.447579|website=The Jewish Chronicle|access-date=2 February 2018}}{{cite web|title=Ben Goldscheider|url=https://askonasholt.com/artist/ben-goldscheider/|website=Askonas Holt|publisher=Askonas Holt|access-date=4 August 2024}}

• Themes for a One-Man-Band Vol. 1
• Themes for a One-Man-Band Vol. 2
• [https://www.discogs.com/Various-Undercurrents/release/4661142 Undercurrents]
• Terezín: The Music 1941–44 (produced)
• An American in Prague (produced)
• Stabat Mater
• The Song of Songs
• [https://littlebeatdifferent.bandcamp.com/album/lbdissues002 Alexander Goldscheider]
• [https://pointa.cz/project/0ba73b90-7001-11ea-a5de-001dd8b72061 Intended Coincidences]

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• {{cite book|title=Encyklopedie jazzu a moderní populární hudby. Part III. Československá scéna – osobnosti a soubory (Encyclopedia of Jazz and Modern Popular Music. Czechoslovak Scene – Personalities and Ensembles)|last=Matzner|first=Antonín|author2=Poledňák, Ivan|author3= Wasserbeger, Igor|year=1990|publisher=Supraphon|location=Prague|isbn=80-7058-210-3|page=159|ref=Poledňák |language=cs}}

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• [http://www.romantic-robot.com/ Romantic Robot]
• [http://www.last.fm/music/Alexander+Goldscheider/ Last.fm]
• [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/e0b884e9-94c6-4a6e-976e-da87a66d31d9.html MusicBrainz]
• [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Alexander+Goldscheider Discogs]

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