Schelling, Ernest Henry (1876–1939)

US pianist and composer. After his debut as a child prodigy at Philadelphia at the age of four, he studied at the Paris Conservatory. He later studied in Vienna, with Leschetizky for piano and Bruckner for composition, and elsewhere, with Paderewski, Moszkowski, and others. He toured widely, joined the US army in 1918, and later lectured on the orchestra to children in his New York Philharmonic Orchestra Children's Concerts (1924–39).

Works symphony in C minor, Symphonic Legend (1904), fantasy A Victory Ball, and Morocco for orchestra; Fantastic Suite and Impressions from an Artist's Life for piano and orchestra.