Ernest Schelling 1876 - 1939

[giles.enders]

Ernest Henry Schelling  Born 26.7.1876 Belvedere New Jersey - Died 8.12.1939 New York

He had a Swiss father and and an English mother.  He married his first wife Lucie Howe in 1905 and his second wife Peggy Helen Marshall in January 1939 in Switzerland.  She was aged 21 at the time.
He was a child prodigy making his debut as a pianist with The Philadelphia Academy of Music at the age of 4.
He was initially taught music by his father, later at a very young age of 7 he was sent  to The Paris Conservatoire and studied under  Georges Mathias.  He subsequently studied under Moszkowski, Pruckner, Leschetizky, Hans Huber, Barth and later still under Paderewski.
As a pianist he toured Europe and South America. From 1905 he became music director and conductor of The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 

Orchestra

Symphony in C  1903
Legende Symphonique in C minor  1904   pub. by G Schirmer
'A Victory Ball' - symphonic poem  1924
'Morocco' symphonic tableau  1927   pub. by Carl Fischer
Suite Fantastique for piano and orchestra  Op.7 1905     pub. by D Rahter
'Impressions from an Artists Life' - symphonic variations for piano and orchestra  1913   pub. by F E C Leuckart
Violin concerto  1916   pub. by F E C Leuckart & Carl Fischer

Chamber

Piano quintet  1925
Divertimento for string quartet and piano. This piece consists of four pieces with piano and quartet and three with only the quartet: 'Les Fontaines de Garengo', 'Evocation Catalane, a' la memoire de Granados', Raja Tamil', 'Gazal persanae', 'Berceuse pour un enfant malade', Irelandaise' for violin and piano, 'The Lost Flight'.   pub. by Carl Fischer
Violin sonata

Piano

Theme and variations 1904
Six compositions for piano - Fatalism, Romance, Valse Gracieuse, Gavotte, Un Petit Rien, Au chateau de Wiligrad.
Nocturne 'Ragusa' 1926
Ritmicassimo  1928
Improvisation  1930

Song

Three Poems for voice and piano - Faded Spray of Mignonette, Love Song, The Harbour Light.
Myrtle for voice and piano

Footnote.
Marin Alsop is now conductor of the Baltimore orchestra.  How about her recording some of his music?

[edurban]

Speaking of Schelling, the UC community may be interested in this article about Schelling's old apartment, which was sold after the 2nd Mrs. Schelling's death in 2007.  I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon there once many years ago, and in fact met Mrs. Scholtz quite a few times.  She was, like her home, something of a relic from an earlier era, but very charming and for the most part unassuming.  Victor Fell Yellen and I went over to explore the possibility of getting the Schelling mss for NYU, or at least the NYPL, but she was a little inflexible in her requirements (a special room to display Schelling's bust and the cast of his hands, etc.) given that some of the major manuscripts had already been given to other institutions...

http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/09/26/park-avenue-penthouse-new-to-market-has-been-in-same-family-for-100-years/

An article about Schelling's musical estate, now mainly at U of Maryland and Stanford University:

http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives/acquisitions/120346

David