Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto E major
Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto is still one of the most popular concertos for this instrument. He composed it in 1803 for the Viennese court trumpeter Anton Waidinger, whose newly developed key-trumpet enabled him to play in a much more virtuoso manner than on the traditional natural trumpet.
Our Urtext edition reproduces the work in the original key of E major with solo parts in E and for the more common trumpet in C. Due to the fact that the concerto is nowadays often performed in E flat major, our edition also contains a piano reduction in E flat major for trumpets in E flat and B flat. The different transpositions are now available in one single edition for the first time. Breitkopf & Härtel are publishing the performance material at the same time.
About the Composer
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Composer and pianist, whose works are positioned stylistically at the transition from Classicism to Romanticism. They encompass nearly all genres, including six piano concerti, sonatas, chamber music, incidental music, and sacred works. Admired as a virtuoso during his lifetime, he showed his technical skills in a comprehensive course on the art of piano playing. He was a member of the Institut de France and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Friends of Music) in Vienna, among others.
| 1778 | Born in Pressburg (Bratislava) on November 14. His father, a professional musician, gives him his first music lessons. |
| 1786–88 | The family relocates to Vienna, where he becomes the pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
| 1788–93 | With his father he undertakes a multi-year concert tour through Europe. In London he meets Joseph Haydn. |
| from 1793 | Back in Vienna, he becomes the pupil of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Antonio Salieri, and Joseph Haydn. |
| 1804–11 | He is concertmaster of Prince Esterházy’s orchestra in Eisenstadt. |
| from 1811 | In Vienna he devotes himself primarily to composition and teaching. |
| 1813 | He marries Elisabeth Röckel, a singer at Vienna’s Hoftheater. |
| 1816–18 | He is Royal Württemberg Court Music Director in Stuttgart. |
| from 1819 | In February he becomes court music director in Weimar, and rises to become one of that city’s most important musical figures. |
| 1827 | In Vienna he meets Franz Schubert. He participates in the funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven. |
| 1828 | He publishes his Course of Instruction on the Art of Playing the Piano, which he had drafted in Weimar. |
| 1831 | With André Hippolyte Chelard he directs the Thuringia Music Festival in Erfurt. |
| 1837 | Dies in Weimar on October 17. |
About the Authors
Michael Kube (Editor, Piano reduction)
Dr. Michael Kube, born in 1968 in Kiel, studied musicology (with Friedhelm Krummacher and Heinrich W. Schwab), the history of art and ethnology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Since 1998 he has been a research associate at the New Schubert Edition (Tübingen) and since autumn 2002 also a member of the editorial board.
Kube is on the panels of different juries and music prizes, and is also a member of the Committee for work evaluation (Werkprüfungsausschuss) of VG Music Edition. His research interests include music for keyboard instruments around 1700, 19th century chamber music, early 20th century music history, as well as Scandinavian music history.
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