A piano-forte once owned by Austrian composer Johann Hummel, a contemporary of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, has been donated to the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. And some other artifacts of musical ...

Pianist and composer Johann Hummel (1778-1837) was a child prodigy taught for two years for free by Mozart and later by Haydn, and later still was friends with Beethoven and Schubert and remained ...

Music by Johann Nepomuk Hummel opens this hour of Performance Today, first on CD and then in concert. From a recording on the Arabesque label, Ian Hobson plays the third movement of Hummel's Piano ...

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The classical music repertoire contains hundreds of works for piano and orchestra, and yet we tend to hear only a tiny fraction of them in concert halls today: the familiar piano concertos by Brahms, ...