Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (born Pressburg November 14 1778; died Weimar October 17 1837) was an Austrian composer and pianist. He was a child prodigy. Mozart thought he was so talented that he taught him free of charge. Hummel became one of the greatest pianists and composers in Europe. He always wrote in a Classical style, he never became an early Romantic like Beethoven. He also wrote a concerto for trumpet, which is fairly famous.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel Media

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  Hummel's birthplace in Klobučnícka St., Bratislava

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  Hummel, portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, c. 1814, Goethe-Museum, Düsseldorf

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  Hummel's grave in the Historical Cemetery, Weimar

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  A surviving manuscript of Hummel's work, probably in his own hand

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  Bust of Hummel near the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar