This album is a co-production with ORF, the Austrian Broadcasting Service.
Composer Biography
Hummel succeeded Haydn as director of the Esterházy ensemble at Eisenstadt and was a fellow-mason of Goethe's Freemasons' Lodge in Weimar.
Instruments
The pianist Madoka Inui performs on a Bösendorfer instrument for this recording.
Performer Biography
Madoka Inui, the pianist on this recording, won the Città di Stresa International Piano Competition and has collaborated in literary-musical matinées with authors like Salman Rushdie and Umberto Eco.
Composer Biography
Hummel's main competitor was Beethoven, and both Liszt and Schumann unsuccessfully tried to become his pupils.
Composition History
Hummel's variations and fantasias on popular operas are considered important documents of the prevailing performance practice of his time.
Composer Biography
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, one of the most famous composers and leading pianists of his day, was taught by Mozart for two years free of charge as a child prodigy.
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