When the great Franz Joseph Haydn retired in 1803 from his longtime post as chief musician for Austrian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, he recommended his friend and former student Johann Nepomuk Hummel as ...

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

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

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 ...

Youth is the theme for a California Consort Chamber Orchestraconcert in Temecula on Saturday, with some of the earliest works bythree prodigies on the program. Of the three, only Felix Mendelssohn ...

As Hummel doggedly held fast to the artistic ideals of his teachers, Haydn and Mozart, he was left behind by a musical world that was plunging headlong into the romantic era. With Donald Macleod.