For a chamber program focused on the music of Dvorák to get around to Johann Nepomuk Hummel, as this year's Music@Menlo festival did on Tuesday night, requires a series of Kevin Baconesque associative ...

Music by Johann Nepomuk Hummel doesn't get a whole lot of notice these days. Conductor Richard Hickox decided that the masses Hummel wrote deserved more attention. He created a recording of the Hummel ...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, born eight years after Beethoven, is one of those composers, celebrated in musical dictionaries rather than in performance, who have had to wait until the age of CD to have ...

Piano Sonata No. 2 Susan Alexander-Max, Fortepiano Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer Piano Sonata No. 3 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer Susan Alexander-Max, Fortepiano (6) Bagatelles, Movements: La ...

Krakowiak Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Wojciech Rajski, Conductor Alexander Krichel, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Grand Fantasia, 'Oberons Zauberhorn' Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer ...

Hummel's growing reputation as a composer went alongside rather more erratic fortunes in his professional career. Then, as the Congress of Vienna brought Europe's leaders to his doorstep, he was ...

The bassoon is one of the underdogs of the orchestra, but once in a while it gets to soar. Canadian Christopher Millard plays the Grand Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra by Johann Nepomuk Hummel in ...

Family responsibilities led Hummel to take a permanent position at the court of Weimar, where he befriended Goethe and launched his most successful tours yet. Presented by Donald Macleod.