# Hans Wessely > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hans_Wessely > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hans_Wessely.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wessely > Source revision: 1355402702 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Austrian violinist (1862 - 1926)}} '''Hans Wessely''' (23 December 1862 – 29 September 1926) was an [Austria](/source/Austria)n [violinist](/source/violinist). thumb|A photograph (c.1910) of the Austrian violinist Hans Wessely ==Biography== He was born in [Vienna](/source/Vienna) in 1862 and died in [Innsbruck](/source/Innsbruck) in 1926. He studied at the [Vienna Conservatory](/source/University_of_Music_and_Performing_Arts%2C_Vienna) with [Karl Heissler](/source/Carl_Heissler) and [Josef Hellmesberger, Sr.](/source/Josef_Hellmesberger%2C_Sr.) from 1873 to 1878. Afterwards he also studied privately with [Jakob Grün](/source/Jakob_Gr%C3%BCn). He debuted with the [Vienna Philharmonic Society](/source/Vienna_Philharmonic_Society) in 1883. He subsequently toured Europe and visited England in 1888. From 1889 he was professor at the [Royal Academy of Music](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Music). He performed at the [London Proms](/source/London_Proms). He established the ''Wessely Quartet''. He worked with [Hans Richter](/source/Hans_Richter_(conductor)), [August Manns](/source/August_Manns), [Henry Wood](/source/Henry_Wood), [Alexander Mackenzie](/source/Alexander_Mackenzie_(composer)), [York Bowen](/source/York_Bowen) and [Arthur Sullivan](/source/Arthur_Sullivan). He taught [Spencer Dyke](/source/Spencer_Dyke), [Albert Sandler](/source/Albert_Sandler), [Percy Hilder Miles](/source/Percy_Hilder_Miles), [E. Florence Whitlock](/source/E._Florence_Whitlock), [Lionel Tertis](/source/Lionel_Tertis) and [Rebecca Clarke](/source/Rebecca_Clarke_(composer)), (before the latter two changed to viola). Wessely played on the ''Deurbroucq'' Stradivarius violin, 1727, gifted to him in 1903 by pupils and friends at the Royal Academy of Music.{{cite journal |title=Mems about Members |journal=R. A. M. Club Magazine |date=October 1903 |volume=10 |page=8}} ==Works== He published ''A Practical Guide to Violin Playing'' and ''Comprehensive Scale Manual''. He edited [Jakob Dont](/source/Jakob_Dont)'s ''Etudes et caprices, op.35''. ==References== {{reflist}} * {{cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |author-link= |editor-last=Remy |editor-first=Alfred |encyclopedia=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |title= Wessely, Hans |trans-title= |url=http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/93513 |access-date=12 November 2015 |language= |edition=third |year=1919 |publisher=G. Schirmer |series= |volume= |location=New York |id= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |pages=1028 |quote= }} * {{cite web | url = http://chase.leeds.ac.uk/article/hans-wessely/ | title = Hans Wessely | date = 2011 | publisher = University of Leeds, CHASE | access-date =12 November 2015}} * {{cite web | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/edz4wh | title = Prom 36 | date = 2015 | publisher = BBC | access-date = 12 November 2015 }} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wessely, Hans}} Category:1862 births Category:1926 deaths Category:19th-century Austrian violinists Category:19th-century classical violinists Category:20th-century Austrian classical violinists Category:Austrian male violinists Category:Violinists from Austria-Hungary Category:Musicians from Vienna Category:Academics of the Royal Academy of Music {{Austria-musician-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hans Wessely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wessely) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wessely?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.