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See also:HENSELT, ADOLF VON (1814—1889) , See also:German composer, was See also:born at See also:Schwabach, in See also:Bavaria, on the 12th of May 1814. At three years old he began to learn the See also:violin, and at five the See also:pianoforte under Frau v. Fladt. On obtaining See also:financial help from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis I. he went to study under See also:Hummel in See also:Weimar, and thence in 1832 to See also:Vienna, where, besides studying See also:composition under See also:Simon Sechter, he made a See also:great success as a See also:concert pianist. In See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to recruit his See also:health he made a prolonged tour in 1836 through the See also:chief German towns. In 1837 he settled at See also:Breslau, where he had married, but in the following See also:year he migrated to St See also:Petersburg, where previous visits had made him persona grata at See also:Court. He then became court pianist and inspector of musical studies in the Imperial See also:Institute of See also:Female See also:Education, and was ennobled. In 1852 and again in 1867 he visited See also:England, though in the latter year he made no public See also:appearance.. St Petersburg was his See also:home practically until his See also:death, which took See also:place at Warmbrunn on the loth of See also:October 1889. The characteristic of Henselt's playing was a See also:combination of See also:Liszt's sonority with Hummel's smoothness. It was full of See also:poetry, remarkable for the great use he made of extended chords, and for his perfect technique. He excelled in his own See also:works and in those of See also:Weber and See also:Chopin. His See also:concerto in F See also:minor is frequently played on the See also:continent; and of his many valuable studies, Si oiseau j'§tail is very See also:familiar. His A minor trio deserves to be better kncwn. At one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Henselt' was second to See also:Rubinstein in the direction of the St Petersburg Conscrvalorium.
End of Article: HENSELT, ADOLF VON (1814—1889)
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