Joseph Friedrich Hummel
Joseph Friedrich Hummel (14 August 1841 – 29 August 1919) was an Austrian
Mozarteum
, was named after him.
Biography
Born in
Mozarteum Orchestra and head of the newly established music school International Mozarteum Foundation from 1880 to 1908.[2] There, he played with the orchestra that he founded, the women's choir and led the Salzburger Liedertafel (amateur male choir) from 1882 until 1912, organizing several major choral festivals in Salzburg, and thus gaining the reputation as a fine Mozart conductor.[3]
Hummel died in Salzburg in 1919 at the age of 78.
Works
Hummel wrote the opera Der Vampyr (1862), two concertos for clarinet and orchestra, choral and chamber music.
- Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. posth. (1975)[4]
- Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. posth. (1976)[4]
- Mandolinata for string sextet, Op. 61 (1910)
- Concertante Piece in B-flat major, Op. 201[5] \
- Trio in B-flat (1885)
- Trio in B-flat major
- Trio in B-flat minor
- Mass in F minor
- Mass in E-flat minor
- Pastoral Mass
- Herz-Jesu Lieder
References
- OCLC 7168097.
- ISBN 978-030-007-223-5.
- ^ "Hummel, Joseph Friedrich (1841–1919), Musiker". Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon ab 1815 (online) (in German). Vol. 3. Austrian Academy of Sciences. 1961. p. 10.
- ^ a b International Clarinet Association Research Center. "Hummel, Joseph Friedrich". ICA Score Collection: HE-HY. University of Maryland Special Collections in Performing Arts. Archived from the original on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ "Joseph Friedrich Hummel". G. Schirmer, Inc. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
