Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff News
German composer (1830-1913)
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- opera
- Kingdom of Prussia
- conductor, composer, pianist
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2018-10-14 06:00:12
Hyperion showcases two lesser lights and hits a Liszt century, while Brian Cox illuminates The Planets • The Hyperion label continues its Romantic piano concerto series with works by two composers who can hardly be described as household names: by Hans August Alexander Bronsart von Schellendorf (or just plain Hans von Bronsart) and Anton Urspruch. No, me neither, but don’t be put off; these are really interesting pieces. Liszt thought so highly of his pupil Bronsart that he dedicated his second piano concerto to him, and while Bronsart’s impressively grandiose F sharp minor concerto of 1873 displays many Lisztian flourishes, it’s very distinctively his own. He wrote it for his wife Ingeborg Starck, for whom, incidentally, Wagner harboured a passion. She must have been quite a pianist, as this stentorian concerto makes huge demands on the soloist, particularly in the spectacularly fiery and exciting finale. Urspruch, another pupil of Liszt […]
2017-02-04 02:10:32
I have broad, perhaps somewhat eclectic taste in music. This is by accident rather than design. Most of the genres outside what gets airplay on popular radio I have stumbled upon while on other paths. Our culture doesn’t really expose young people en masse to much more than current popular music. And that’s a shame. So it feels like a good idea to do my bit to mitigate our cultural musical myopia. Below are links to 28 works of classical music composed by artists born in February whose works I have enjoyed – one for each day of the month. Portrait of Felix Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe Emil Hartmann (Feb 1, 1836) Felix Mendelssohn (Feb 3, 1809) Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (Feb 3, 1736) Émile Prudent (Feb 3, 1817) Ole Bornemann Bull (Feb 5, 1810) Wilhelm […]
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