Conrad Ansorge

{{Short description|German musician}}

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{{Infobox classical composer

| name = Conrad Ansorge

| image = ConradAnsorge.png

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| caption = Portrait of Ansorge from the book {{lang|de|Spemanns goldenes Buch der Musik}}, published 1904

| birth_name = Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge

| birth_date = {{Birth date| 1862|10|15}}

| birth_place = Buchwald, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|02|13|1862|10|15}}

| death_place = Liebau, Province of Lower Silesia, Weimar Republic

| flourished =

| era = Fin de siècle

| list_of_works =

| spouse = Margarete Wegelin

| children = Joachim

| footnotes = {{See LMST|Conrad Ansorge}}

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Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge[http://www.requiemsurvey.org/composers.php?id=23 Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge], Requiem Survey. (15 October 1862 – 13 February 1930) was a German pianist, teacher and composer.

Image:Lovis Corinth Porträt des Conrad Ansorge.jpg, 1903]]

Ansorge was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886. He toured Europe and the United States. He was known for his interpretations of Beethoven.{{cite web|title=C-D: Conrad Ansorge (1862-1930)|url=http://lib.guides.umd.edu/ipam-buyers-guide|work=A Buyer's Guide to Historic Piano Recordings Reissued on Compact Discs|publisher=International Piano Archives at Maryland|accessdate=31 July 2013}}

On 15 April 1890, his "Orpheus" symphony was performed in Steinway Hall, New York, under the baton of Theodore Thomas.{{cite news |title=AMUSEMENTS. (Published 1890) |work=The New York Times |date=16 April 1890 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707101126/https://www.nytimes.com/1890/04/16/archives/amusements.html |archive-date=2018-07-07 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1890/04/16/archives/amusements.html}} He became professor of pianoforte at Weimar in 1893. From 1898 to 1903 he taught at Berlin, in the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory.

In 1920 he became head of the piano master class at the German Academy (Deutschen Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) in Prague.

Conrad Ansorge's students included: Selim Palmgren,{{Cite web |url=http://www.pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=192 |title=Piano Society |access-date=2008-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113064454/http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=192 |archive-date=2008-11-13 |url-status=dead }} Eduard Erdmann,{{Cite web |url=http://www.analogartsensemble.net/2007/03/heinz-tiessen-zwei-ernste-weisen-fr.html |title=ANA Blog |access-date=2008-11-21 |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091010043817/http://www.analogartsensemble.net/2007/03/heinz%2Dtiessen%2Dzwei%2Dernste%2Dweisen%2Dfr.html |archive-date=2009-10-10 |url-status=dead }} James Simon,{{Cite web |url=http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=james_simon |title=Music during the Holocaust |access-date=2008-11-21 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181315/http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=james_simon |url-status=dead }} Alice Herz-Sommer,[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/dec/13/classicalmusicandopera.secondworldwar “Life is beautiful”] and Wilhelm Furtwängler.[http://www.orlikprints.com/pages/single/287.html Emil Orlik: Portrait of Conrad Ansorge]

He made some Welte-Mignon recordings in 1905, of music by Liszt, Schumann and others. He also wrote a Requiem, two symphonies, a piano concerto, three piano sonatas, two string quartets, and other works. None of these are in the current repertoire.

He married the pianist Margarete Wegelin. Their son Joachim (1893–1947) was also a pianist and teacher. He died in Berlin.