Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
- Concerto (Es-Dur) a Trombe Principale (1803), IJH 100
Performers: Ludwig Güttlеr (trumpet); Kammerorchester Bеrlin; Max Pommеr (conductor)
Painting: Johann Peter Krafft (1780-1856) - Der Einzug von Kaiser Franz I. in Wien nach dem Pariser Frieden
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Slovakian-Austrian composer, teacher and pianist. He was son of Johannes
Hummel (1754-1828), director of the Imperial School of Military Music
in Vienna, and Margarethe Sommer (1751-1837). Recognized as a child
prodigy, he began musical instruction from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in
1786 when his family moved to Vienna. Making his debut a year later, he
was so proficient that in 1788 Mozart recommended that he be taken on
tour of Germany and Denmark. By 1790 he and his family were in
Edinburgh, Scotland, where he took on pupils for a short time, and in
1792 he made his debut at the Hannover Square Rooms in London. He
returned to Vienna in 1795, where he studied organ under Joseph Haydn,
composition under Antonio Salieri, and counterpoint under Johann Georg
Albrechtsberger. During this period he began a long and often stormy
friendship with Ludwig van Beethoven, whom Hummel considered a superior
performer and composer, often lending him an inferiority complex. In
1804, he became Konzertmeister at the Esterházy estate in Eisenstadt, a
position that was problematic enough that in 1811 he resigned and turned
to private teaching. In 1816 he obtained the position as court
Kapellmeister in Stuttgart but left after only a year to take up a
similar post in Weimar. In 1832, at the age of 54 and in failing health,
he began to devote less energy to his duties as music director at
Weimar. He was in partial retirement until his death in 1837. As a
composer, although his music displays redolent Classical form and
structure, the advanced harmonies and expanded forms more properly
belong to the Romantic period, with the bulk of his music being written
after 1800. His output embraced virtually all the genres and performing
media common at the turn of the century: operas, Singspiele, symphonic
masses and other sacred works, occasional pieces, chamber music, songs
and concertos and solo piano music, as well as many arrangements. He was
considered in his time to be one of Europe's greatest composers and
perhaps its greatest pianist. Despite his great success, he seems to
have remained fundamentally a warm and simple person. His son Eduard
Hummel (1814-c.1875) was also a composer active in Augsburg.
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