Baron Boris Fitinhof-Schell

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Piano reduction of the Wedding March written especially by Fitinhof-Schell for the wedding of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in 1895
Piano reduction of the Wedding March written especially by Fitinhof-Schell for the wedding of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in 1895

Baron Boris Alexandrovich Fitinhof-Schell (AKA Boris Schell) (born 1829 in St. Petersburg, Russia - died 1901 in St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian composer.

He was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Field and Henselt, and was a classmate of Tchaikovsky's. His most noted work are the ballets The Haarlem Tulip (1887) and Cinderella (1893), composed for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. He also scored four operas for the St. Petersburg Imperial Opera, which were commissioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres. His Wedding March, scored especially for the wedding of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna is still occasionally heard.

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