Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge[1] (15 October 1862 – 13 February 1930) was a German pianist, teacher and composer.
Ansorge was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886.
[2] On 15 April 1890, his "Orpheus" symphony was performed in Steinway Hall, New York, under the baton of Theodore Thomas.
In 1920 he became head of the piano master class at the German Academy (Deutschen Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) in Prague.
Conrad Ansorge's students included: Selim Palmgren,[4] Eduard Erdmann,[5] James Simon,[6] Alice Herz-Sommer,[7] and Wilhelm Furtwängler.