What is Adolf von Henselt?
[[Image:Denkmal Adolph von Henselt (fcm).jpg|thumb|204px|right|Statue of von Henselt in his hometown of Schwabach]] '''Adolf von Henselt''' (born Schwabach, [[Bavaria]], May 9 1814; died Warmbrunn (now Cieplice), [[Silesia]], October 10 1889) was a [[Germany|German]] [[pianist]] and [[composer]]. He had [[piano]] lessons from [[Johann Nepomuk Hummel|Hummel]] in [[Weimar]]. When he was a young man he played in concerts all over Germany. Then he went to [[Russia]] where he was very successful and he settled there to live. He became pianist at the court of the [[tsar]] and taught the tsar’s children how to play the piano. Henselt was known for his beautiful playing of the music of [[Chopin]]. He was very good at playing widely spaced [[arpeggio]]s and could make them sound very smooth (legato) even if he was not using the [[pedal (music)|pedal]]. As a composer he is mostly remembered today for a few of his short works which are often quite sentimental, e.g. ''Frühlingslied'' (''Spring Song'') and ''Si oiseau j’étais'' (''If I were a bird''). {{DEFAULTSORT:Henselt, Adolf von}} [[Category:19th-century German composers]] [[Category:Romantic composers]] [[Category:German pianists]] [[Category:1814 births]] [[Category:1889 deaths]]