Katana VentraIP

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 1778 – 17 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Mozart, Salieri and Haydn. He also knew Beethoven and Schubert.

"Johann Hummel" redirects here. For the German painter, see Johann Erdmann Hummel.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

14 November 1778

Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary
(now Bratislava, Slovakia)

17 October 1837 (aged 58)

Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Confederation
(now Germany)

Composer and pianist

List of compositions

Elisabeth Röckel (m. 1813)

Eduard, Carl

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Der Mensch und Künstler. Karl Benyovszky, Breslau: Eos-Verlag 1934.

Zwischen Klassik und Klassizismus. Johann Nepomuk Hummel in Wien und Weimar. , Laurenz Lütteken (editors), Kassel: Bärenreiter 2003.

Anselm Gerhard

Kroll, Mark (2007). Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.  978-0-8108-5920-3.

ISBN

: "Maria Eva Hummel. A Postscript", Vienna 2013

Lorenz, Michael

Kapellmeister Hummel in England and France. Joel Sachs, Detroit: Information Coordinators 1977.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel und Weimar. Komponist, Klaviervirtuose, Kapellmeister 1778–1837. Kurt Thomas, Weimar: Rat der Stadt 1987

Dieter Zimmerschied. Die Kammermusik Johann Nepomuk Hummels. Mainz 1966.

Dieter Zimmerschied. Thematisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Hofheim am Taunus: Hofmeister 1971.

at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

Free scores by Johann Nepomuk Hummel

in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

Free scores by Johann Nepomuk Hummel

biographical information, videos, audio samples and scores, information on performances of Hummel's works

The Hummel Project

Mikio Tao, Works Catalogue of Hummel (pdf)

[1]

at Open Library

Works by Johann Nepomuk Hummel

(Hummel society in Weimar) (German)

Hummel Gesellschaft Weimar

Official website of the Hummel House (owned by the Lückhoff Institute)

Hummel's House in Marienstrasse 8, Weimar

(in French)

musicalics.com

8notes biography and commentary

Archived 3 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine

Compactdiscoveries article on Hummel's relation to Chopin

on Hyperion Records; many of the individual CD pages have a further link to sound samples and/or the CD booklet notes.

Hummel

by David d'Angers, 1834.

Hummel medallion

Hummel notes written in Japanese by Mikio Tao

on YouTube, animated score

Rondo Favori, Op. 11