Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was among Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri’s
Portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, c. 1814
Hummel's birthplace in Klobučnícka St., Bratislava
Hummel's grave in the Historical Cemetery, Weimar
A surviving manuscript of Hummel's work, probably in his own hand
Antonio Salieri
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Antonio Salieri was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
…Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was among Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri’s best students. He also studied under Joseph Haydn. Hummel significantly influenced later piano music of the nineteenth century, particularly in the…
Portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, c. 1815
Salieri's teacher Florian Leopold Gassmann in an engraving (1775) by Johann Balzer
Beginning of the overture to Salieri's Armida in the autograph score
Adolphe Nourrit in the title role in Tarare, in Paris 1823