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?
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/ (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 (http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives/acquisitions/120346)
David
Will we ever get a recording of Impressions from an Artists Life or the Violin Concerto?
There are two recordings of Impressions from an Artists's Life. Long ago, the International Piano Archive offered an LP (IPA 2003, not commercially released) featuring Ernest Schelling/Chicago SO/Frederick Stock (recorded 28 Nov. 1936, but with cuts in the score); perhaps copies are still available. More recently, a performance by Ludmil Angelov/Sofia PO/Gabriel Bebeșelea (27 June 2019, complete) aired on Romanian Radio.