ADOLF VON HENSELT (1814-1889) German composer. Adolf von Henselt Free midi downloads.

ADOLF VON HENSELT
9^th May 1814 --- 10^th October 1889

Adolf von Henselt, was a German composer, he was born at Schwabach, Bavaria in May 1814. When he was three years old he began to learn
the violin, and at five the pianoforte under Frau.V.Fladt. With financial help from King Louis 1st, he went to study under Hummenl in Weimar,
and thence in 1832 to Vienna,   where besides studying composition under a Simon Sechter,   he made a great success as a concert pianist.

In 1837 he settled at Breslau, where he had married, but in the following year he migrated to St Petersburg where he became court painist,
he acquried a great position and was ennobled. From the 1840's he stopped doing public performance's, he had a nervous breakdown a few
years before, some say he did not fully recover from and could have been why he gave up as a concert pianist. He visited England in the 1852
and 1867 but only did a few private performance's, as well as only producing only a few minor works later.

Henselt died in Warmbrumm, Selesia, on Oct 1889. The characteristic of Henselt playing was a combination of Liszt's sonority with Hummel's
smoothness and he was justly regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his time.   His best known works are the Concerto in F minor and a
number of chaming studies and salon pieces
Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica
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