Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff

[adriano]

All those Vox LP's were my delight in the 1970s and later - and the frustration about  inferior orchestras and several cuts could be compensated by those brilliant renderings by Michael Ponti and others.
I think the complete reissue by Brilliant Classics should also be considered as a very valuable enterprise - and this not only for its budget price!
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Nov/Romantic_PCs_95300.htm

[Alan Howe]

Absolutely right!

[eschiss1]

Those who are ok with downloads should note that Amazon & Vox have offered almost the same Romantic piano concertos for $2 ($1 for a download of the earlier Romantic concertos, and $1 for the later Romantic concertos and some early-20th century concertos/modernish ones (Barber's admittedly rather poundy/jazzy(?) one (ok, I like it, but.), Hanson, Françaix, Tailleferre iirc ... their 1880-1962 volume)  that you can always delete individually if you really don't want to ever, ever hear them...) in the same performances.

[giles.enders]

I believe eschiss1 (28th May) is correct.  I have removed the Op.21 designation for the Fantasie from 1858.  Now the question is was it given an opus number ?

[John Boyer]

"Everyone in Berlin knew that [Chancellor] Caprivi's days were numbered. Holstein remained loyal to the Chancellor to the end, but most politicians ignored Caprivi. At one dinner, the new Prussian Minister of War, General Walter Bronsart von Schellendorf, appointed to office without Caprivi's consent, publicly insulted, then turned his back on, the Imperial Chancellor. Caprivi understood. 'My relations with the All Highest have become intolerable', he wrote to a friend. 'You just cannot imagine how relieved I will feel to get out of here.'  On October 26, 1894, he resigned."

Robert K. Massie, "Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War", p. 117.

Sometimes a name just leaps off the page of the book you are reading. This was the case a few moments ago when I reached the passage above in Robert Massie's thousand-page history of the arms race between Great Britain and Germany in the two decades before the First World War. "Could it be?" I thought. They don't just hand out names like "Bronsart von Schellendorf". A quick trip to German Wikipedia revealed what I suspected: Walter was the brother of Hans, specifically his younger brother by three years.

Who knew?

[Ilja]

The family has been very active in Imperial politics, and some regrettably also in the Nazi Years. Hans' younger brother Paul was arguably the most significant of them, serving as minister of war at one point and conducting negotiations for the French surrender at Sedan in 1870. Hans was something of a black sheep of the family, not only because of his occupation but also because his political views differed markedly from the reactionary politics of most of his family. His father was also a career officer, and as the eldest of the brothers (Walther was the youngest) becoming a composer was certainly not the career path initially chosen for him.