Joseph Friedrich Hummel
Joseph Friedrich Hummel (born 14 August 1841, Innsbruck – 29 August 1919, Salzburg) was an Austrian choral conductor, composer and music teacher. Father of musicologist Walter Hummel, he was a musician and promoter of the works of Wagner, Bruckner and Strauss, a representant of the more creative sounding musical culture of his time. The Josef-Friedrich-Hummel-Straße, a street in Salzburg located in close proximity to the main building of the Mozarteum, was named after him.
Biography
Joseph Hummel studied music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München under Franz Lachner and worked as theater kapellmeister in Innsbruck, Aachen, Troppau and Vienna, as well as conductor of the Brünn City Theatre from 1876-1879.[1] He became director of the Mozarteum Orchestra and head of the newly established music school International Mozarteum Foundation from 1880-1908.[2] There, he played with the orchestra that he founded, the women's choir and led the Salzburger Liedertafel (amateur male choir) from 1882-1912, organizing several major choral festivals in Salzburg, and thus gaining the reputation as a fine Mozart conductor.[3]
Works
Hummel was the author of the opera Der Vampyr (1862), two concertos for clarinet and orchestra, choral and chamber music.
- Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. posth. (1975)[4]
- Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F-moll minor, Op. posth. (1976)[4]
- Mandolinata for string sextet, Op.61 (1910)
- Concertante Piece in B-flat major, Op.201[5]
- Trio in B-flat (1885)
- Trio in B-moll major
- Trio in B-moll minor
- Mass in F minor
- Mass in E-flat minor
- Pastoral Mass
- Herz-Jesu Lieder
References
- ↑ Leoš Janáček, Theodora Straková (1979). Musik des Lebens: Skizzen, Feuilletons, Studien. Leipzig: Reclam. p. 200. OCLC 7168097
- ↑ Hermann Abert, Stewart Spencer (2007). W. A. Mozart. Yale University Press. p. 1343. ISBN 030-007-223-6.
- ↑ Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (1961). Hummel, Joseph Friedrich (1841-1919), Musiker. Zentrum Neuzeit- und Zeitgeschichtsforschung. p. 10, vol. 3.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 International Clarinet Association Research Center. "Hummel, Joseph Friedrich". ICA Score Collection: HE-HY. University of Maryland Special Collections in Performing Arts. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ↑ Schirmer. "Joseph Friedrich Hummel". Schirmer.com. Retrieved 9 July 2012.