Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf - Piano Concerto Op. 10 (1872)

Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (11 February 1830 – 3 November 1913) was a pianist and composer who studied under Franz Liszt. Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 10 (1872) Dedicated to his wife Ingeborg Bronsart I. Allegro maestoso II. Adagio ma non troppo III. Allegro con fuoco Michael Ponti, piano and the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Kapp The piano concerto was much favoured by Hans von Bülow, who rated the work as the “most significant one of the so-called Weimar school“. Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (also called Hans von Bronsart) was born into a Prussian military family, and educated at Berlin University. He studied piano with Adolph Jullack. He went to Weimar in 1853 where he met Franz Liszt and became familiar with all the musicians in Liszt’s circle at the time, including Hector Berlioz and Johannes Brahms. It is a measure of his close relationship with Liszt that it was he who played the solo part in the first Weimar performance of Liszt’s 2nd Piano Concerto, with the composer conducting. When the concerto was published, Liszt dedicated it to Bronsart. After having trained for several years with Liszt, he worked as a conductor in Leipzig and Berlin, and then took the post of general manager of the Royal Theatre in Hanover from 1867 to 1887. He held a similar post in Weimar from 1887 until his retirement in 1895. He met his second wife Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (née Ingeborg Lena Starck) (1840–1913), also a composer, in Weimar. They married in 1861. Bronsart von Schellendorff died in Munich in 1913.