A Wisdom Archive on Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, born in 1778, was a fixture in the Viennese musical world. A child prodigy and former pupil of W.A. Mozart, Hummel was renowned for his incredible virtuosity at the keyboard and legendary prowess at improvisation. Alongside Beethoven, he was widely considered the finest performer of his day. For many years, Hummel enjoyed a close friendship with Beethoven. Several incidents, however, marred their relationship. In a famous incident, Beethoven was invited by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy to write a mass for his wife i ...

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Perhaps the most important relationship in Beethoven's early life, and certainly the most famous, was the young pianist's tutorship under the Austrian composer Franz Josef Haydn. Beethoven studied with a number of composers and teachers in the period 1792-1795, including Salieri and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. However, of all Beethoven's teachers, Haydn enjoyed the greatest reputation having just returned from his first successful voyage to London. In the year befo ...

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Carl Czerny (sometimes Karl; February 21, 1791 – July 15, 1857) was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of etudes for the piano. Czerny was born in Vienna and was first taught the piano by his father before taking lessons from Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and Ludwig van Beethoven. He was a child prodigy, making his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a Mozart piano concerto. Later, he gave the Vienna premiere of Beethove ... Including:

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List of compositions for piano and orchestra - Concertos for piano and other solo instruments. Ludwig van Beethoven Triple concerto, op. 56 (1804-5) Elliott Carter Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961) Joseph Haydn Concerto in F, Hob. XVIII/6, for piano, violin and strings (before 1766) Johann Nepomuk Hummel Double Concerto in G, Op. 17 for piano and violin

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See also Weimar Republic. For the locality in Texas called Weimar see Weimar, Texas, there is also Weimar bei Kassel and Weimar in Marburg-Biedenkopf Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located at 50° 58 min 6 s north / 11° 18 min 6 s east, in the Bundesland of Thuringia (German: Thüringen), close to the Thüringer Wald to the south, slightly to the east of Erfurt, and approximately fifty miles (75 kilometers) southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its curr ... Including:

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The Classical period in Western music occurred from about 1730 and 1820, but there was considerable overlap at both ends with preceding and following periods, as is true for all musical eras. Although the term classical music is used as a blanket term meaning all kinds of music in this tradition, it can also occasionally mean this particular era within that tradition. The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. Among its composers were Muzio Clementi, Johann Ladislaus Dussek and Carl P ... Including:

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• Classical music era - Beginnings of the Classical style 1730-1760
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• Classical music era - The middle Classical style 1775-1790
• Classical music era - The late Classical style 1790-1820
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Frédéric-François Chopin (IPA [ˈʃo̝ˌpã̝]), (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) is one of the most famous, influential and admired composers for the piano. He was born "Fryderyk Franciszek", of French and Polish parentage in the village of Żelazowa Wola, Poland. In Warsaw he was hailed as a child prodigy for his keyboard and composition skill. He adopted the French variant of his name, "Frédéric-François", when he left for Paris at the age of 20, having already composed his two piano concertos, and he never retu ... Including:

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The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that plays in the tenor range and below. Also called fagott, in German, and fagotto, in Italian, from a word meaning "bundle of sticks" due to its construction: the instrument is made of an eight foot long conical piece of wood, doubled over onto itself, and split into several sections so it can be disassembled and stored. Appearing in its modern form in the 1800s after the model of its precursors, particularly the dulcian, the bassoon is a part of orchestral ... Including:

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Bassoon - Baroque. Antonio Vivaldi wrote 37 concerti for bassoon Bassoon - Classical. Johann Christian Bach, Bassoon Concerto in B flat, Bassoon Concerto in E-flat major Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Bassoon Concerto in F, W75 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191 Bassoon - Romantic. Carl Maria von Weber, Andante e rondo ungarese in C minor, op. 35 ...

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Beethoven's most significant ancestor was his grandfather (1712-1773), also named Ludwig van Beethoven. The elder Ludwig was Flemish (hence "van", not "von"), and came from Mechelen (French: Malines), now in Belgium. This Ludwig emigrated to Germany in 1733 to work as a bass singer and ultimately settled in Bonn, which at the time was the seat of the Archbishopric of Cologne. The elder Ludwig rose through the ranks at the court of the reigning prince (called the E ...

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Beethoven had few students. From 1801 to 1805, he tutored Ferdinand Ries, who would go on to become a composer and later published a book about their encounters, Beethoven remembered. Carl Czerny was taught by Beethoven from 1801 to 1803. He went on to become a renowned music teacher himself, taking on Franz Liszt as one of his students. He also gave the Vienna premiere of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" in 1812. In 1803 or 1804, Archduke Rudolph, youngest son of Emperor Leopold II, began to study piano and co ...

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Around 1801, Beethoven began to lose his hearing. He suffered a severe form of tinnitus, a "roar" in his ears that made it hard for him to appreciate music; he would avoid conversation. The cause of Beethoven's deafness is unknown, but it has variously been attributed to syphilis, lead poisoning, typhus, and even his habit of immersing his head in cold water to stay awake. The oldest explanation, from the autopsy of the time, ...

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