1. Ernest Henry Schelling was an American pianist, composer, and conductor, and music director.
13 Facts About Ernest Schelling
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Ernest Schelling was the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1935 to 1937.
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Ernest Schelling was born in Belvidere, New Jersey, on July 26,1876.
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Ernest Schelling made his debut at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at age 4.
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Ernest Schelling toured Europe and North and South America, gaining a reputation as a remarkable pianist.
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Ernest Schelling died on February 4,1938, at their summer home in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Ernest Schelling married his second wife, Helen Huntington "Peggy" Marshall, on August 11,1939, when she was 21 and he was 63.
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Ernest Schelling was the stepdaughter of the philanthropist Brooke Astor, and a niece of Vincent Astor.
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Ernest Schelling died of a cerebral embolism at his home in Manhattan, New York City, on December 8,1939.
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Ernest Schelling's most popular work was A Victory Ball, a symphonic poem for orchestra based on an anti-war poem by Alfred Noyes.
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Ernest Schelling was elected an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music, in 1917 by the fraternity's Alpha chapter at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Ernest Schelling was the first conductor of the Young People's Concerts of the New York Philharmonic.
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Ernest Schelling held these concerts in New York, and took them on the road.