Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf


Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf was a Finland-Swedish and German composer.

Life

Ingeborg Starck was born in Saint Petersburg, the daughter of Finland-Swedish parents Margareta Åkerman and Otto Starck who were living in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where her father, a court saddle-maker, was involved in commerce. Her native language was Swedish. Having shown musical gifts from a young age, she studied piano with and Adolf Henselt, as well as composition with. She completed her studies in Weimar with Franz Liszt. During a stay in Paris in 1861 her friends included composers such as Auber, Berlioz, Rossini and Wagner. In September of the same year, she married fellow pianist-composer Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, a member of Liszt's circle whom she had met in Weimar.
Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf toured Europe as a concert pianist until 1867, when she was expected to cease work due to her husband's appointment as general manager of the Royal Theatre in Hanover. She remained musically active as a composer of opera, chamber and instrumental music and a large number of songs. Earlier, she had composed a piano concerto, now lost. During her lifetime her operas were successfully produced in many theatres in Germany. Pieces composed by her which were popular at the time included her Kaiser Wilhelm March, the Singspiel Jery und Bätely and the opera Hiarne. Marie Lipsius, her friend and biographer, described her as "the first and until now the only German woman dramatic composer," and also noted that she was also "the first woman to have brought a large opera

Works

Operas

Die Göttin von Sais Jery und Bätely König Hiarne
  • ''Die Sühne''

Concertos

  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F-minor

Orchestral works

  • Kaiser Wilhelm March

Chamber music

  • Romanze in A minor for violin and piano
  • Notturno in A minor for cello and piano, op. 13
  • Elegie in C major for cello and piano, op. 14
  • Romanze in B-flat major for cello and piano, op. 15
  • Phantasie for violin and piano, op. 21

Piano music

  • Trois études
  • Nocturne
  • Tarantella
  • Fuge über die Namen Maria und Martha
  • Fugues
  • Variations on themes by Bach
  • Variations
  • Toccatas
  • Sonata
  • Kaiser Wilhelm March
  • Vier Clavierstücke
  • Drei Phantasie in G-sharp minor, op. 18

Choral music

  • Hurrah Germania! for male choir
  • Kennst du die rothe Rose? for soloists male choir and mixed choir
  • Easter Lied, for choir, op. 27

Songs

  • Die Loreley
  • Und ob der holde Tag vergangen
  • Three Lieder
  • Three Lieder
  • Five Lieder
  • Six Lieder by Mirza Schaffy, op. 8
  • Hafisa: Three Lieder by Mirza Schaffy, op. 9
  • 6 Poems, op. 10
  • Five Christmas Lieder, op. 11
  • Five Poems, op. 12
  • Röslein auf Haiden
  • Five Poems, op. 16
  • Twelve Nursery Rhymes, op. 17
  • Wie dich die warme Luft umscherzt“
  • Blumengruss
  • Six Poems, op. 20
  • Three Poems, op. 22
  • Three Lieder, op. 23
  • Im Lenz
  • Rappelle-toi! op. 24
  • Three Lieder, op. 25
  • Abschied, op. 26
  • Lieder,
  • Verwandlung
  • Lieder