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Adolph Henselt was born in 1814 in the tranquil town of Schwabach, a few miles south of Nuremberg. Shortly after his family moved to Munich in 1817 he took up the violin, but in 1823 began piano studies under Eduard Lasser, a tenor at the Hoftheater München, who’s own teacher, the illustrious Josepha von Fladt, would become his teacher.
In 1831 King Ludwig awarded Henselt a scholarship to study with Hummel in Weimar. We can surmise from German writer Ida Marie Lipsius’s that the young student found the brilliant yet ageing Hummel a little stifling, but Mozart’s illustrious pupil had sufficient confidence in the young Henselt to present him at Court in a concert performing Hummel’s own A flat Concerto. In 1833 Henselt moved to Vienna where he took lessons in counterpoint and theory from the celebrated
