Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff

Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (11 February 1830 – 3 November 1913) was a classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt.

He was educated at Berlin University and studied piano with Adolph Jullack.

After having trained for several years with Liszt, he worked as a conductor in Leipzig and Berlin, and then took the post of general manager of the Royal Theatre in Hanover from 1867 to 1887.

Bronsart von Schellendorf's compositions include His piano concerto was much favoured by Hans von Bülow, who rated the work as the "most significant one of the so-called Weimar school".

In a letter from 12 May 1879, to Walter Bache, he writes "On 5th June Bülow conducts the first concert there, at which Bronsart's beautiful and valuable Fruhlings-Fantasie, Bülow's music to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and my Faust Symphony will be performed."