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    Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 1778 – 17 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical...
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  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Concerto No. 2 in A minor, Op. 85 was written in 1816 and published in Vienna in 1821. Unlike his earlier piano concerti...
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    Haydn and Antonio Salieri, with the piano virtuoso and composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and the German composer Carl Maria von Weber. Conversely, he regarded...
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    Johann Nepomuk Hummel completed his Concerto a Trombe Principale (Trumpet Concerto in E Major) in December 1803. It was performed on New Year's Day 1804...
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    This is a list of compositions by Johann Nepomuk Hummel. This list is sorted by opus number. Op. 1, 3 sets of Variations for piano (London, 1791) 1. The...
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    Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp minor, Op. 81 was written and published in 1819. The work is written in a proto-Romantic style that...
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    the Romantic era. Schubert is also a transitional figure, as were Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Luigi Cherubini, Gaspare Spontini, Gioachino Rossini, Carl Maria...
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    was a German soprano opera singer and the wife of the composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Röckel was born in Neunburg vorm Wald, Bavaria, and was baptised...
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    concertos were written for it by Austrian composers Joseph Haydn and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, but waned with the invention of valves in the 1820s and the subsequent...
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    Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Eberl, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart were among the most famous of his...
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