Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff

Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Training under Franz Liszt and Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn is recorded. Karl Heinrich Barth is recorded as having studied under Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is music, conducting and piano performance. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Hanover State Symphony Orchestra, Hanover State Opera and Hanover State Ballet.

• Name — Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff • Born — 11 February 1830 • Occupation — Classical musician and composer

Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (also called Hans von Bronsart) was born into a Prussian military family, to the lieutenant general Heinrich Bronsart von Schellendorff. He was educated at Berlin University and 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.