Ulfert Jacobus Schults (19 November 1871 – 3 February 1942) was a Dutch composer and music educator. Born in Amsterdam, he studied piano and passed the examination of the Dutch Society of Musicians in The Hague.
Schults taught at his own institution, the General Music School of Ulfert Schults, at 243 Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. By 1900 he was also a piano teacher at the music school of the Society for the Promotion of Music, directed by Daniël de Lange. From 1913 to 1930 he served as the school’s director, and he remained its principal piano teacher until 1935. His pupils included Rosy Wertheim, Cor de Groot, Gerard Hengeveld, and George van Renesse.
His compositions were principally for piano. They include the six piano pieces Aquarelles, Op. 1 (1892); Andante and Scherzetto, Op. 2; Valse presto, Op. 3; Papillons, twelve piano pieces, Op. 4; Lyric Tone Poems for Piano, Op. 7; Theme with Variations for Two Pianos, Op. 10; Waltzes, Op. 11; Scherzo, Op. 12; Tambourin, Op. 14; a Sonatina, Op. 26; Deux valses, Op. 31; and Berceuse et tourbillon, Op. 32. He also wrote vocal works, including Songs for Alto Voice, Op. 17, and Exquisses, three songs, Op. 33, as well as piano teaching materials such as Practical Elementary School for Keyboard, Op. 9, finger exercises, and several sets of recital pieces.
Schults was married to the pianist Daisy Mary Tucker Swindells from 1897 to 1909, and in 1914 he married Margaret Swindells. In his final years he and his wife lived in Baarn. He died at the Deaconesses’ Hospital in Hilversum on 3 February 1942 and was buried at the Nieuw Valkeveen General Cemetery.