Hummel: Flute Sonatas / Flute Trio / Grand Rondeau Brillant

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Cat No: 8553473

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099447324

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: HUMMEL

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Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837)Flute Sonatas (Complete)Sonata in G major for flute and piano, Op. 2a, No.2Sonata in D major for flute and piano, Op. 50Sonata in A major for flute and piano, Op. 64Grand Rondeau Brillant in G major for flute and piano,Op. 126Trio in A major for flute, piano and cello, Op. 78 Johann Nepomuk Hummel has been largely neglected byposterity, yet in his own time he enjoyed the highest reputation both as acomposer and as a virtuoso performer. Recent years have brought a chance, atleast, for some re-assessment of his music, with an increasing number ofrecordings, although neither the bicentenary of his birth nor the 150thanniversary of his death stirred the interest that his music seems to deserve. Hummel was born in 1778 in Pressburg, the modern Bratislava,the son of a musician. At the age of four he could read music, at five play theviolin and at six the piano. Two years later he became a pupil of Mozart in Vienna,lodging, as was the custom, in his master's house. On Mozart's suggestion theboy and his father embarked, in 1788, on an extended concert tour, reflectingMozart's own childhood experience. For four years they travelled through Germanyand Denmark. By the spring of 1790 they were in Edinburgh, where they spentthree months, and there followed visits to Durham and to Cambridge before theyarrived, in the autumn, in London. Plans in 1792 to tour France and Spainseemed inopportune in a time of revolution, so that father and son made theirway back through Holland to Vienna. The next ten years of Hummel's career found him occupiedin study, in composition and in teaching in Vienna. When Beethoven had settledin Vienna in 1792, the year after Mozart's death, he had sought lessons from Haydn,from Albrechtsberger and from the Court Composer Antonio Salieri. Hummel was tostudy with the same teachers, the most distinguished Vienna had to offer. Albrechtsbergerprovided a sound technical basis for his composition, while Salieri gaveinstruction in writing for the voice and in the philosophy of aesthetics.Haydn, after his return from his second London visit, gave him some organlessons, but warned him of the possible effect on his touch as a pianist. Itwas through Haydn that Hummel became, in 1804, Konzertmeister to Prince NikolausEsterhiizy, effectively doing the work of Kapellmeister, a nominal title thatHaydn held until his death in 1809. He had Haydn to thank, too, for hisretention of his position with the Esterhiizy family when, in 1808, neglect ofhis duties had brought dismissal. His connection with the Esterhiizys came toan end in 1811, but had served to give him experience as a composer of churchand theatre music, while his father, as director of music at the Theater auf derWieden and later at the famous Apollo Saal, provided him with other musicalopportunities. Hummel had, as a child, impressed audiences by hisvirtuosity as a pianist. He was to return to the concert platform in 1814, atthe time of th
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