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Johann Nepomuk Hummel

1778 - 1837

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Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 1778 – 17 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and Joseph Haydn. Hummel significantly influenced later piano music of the nineteenth century, particularly in the works of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Felix Mendelssohn. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Nepomuk Hummel is the 127th most popular composer (up from 132nd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Composer.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel is most famous for being a composer and pianist.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Nepomuk Hummel ranks 127 out of 1,451. Before him are Giulio Caccini, Max Bruch, Adolphe Adam, Edgard Varèse, Carl Nielsen, and Maurice Jarre. After him are Girolamo Frescobaldi, Anton Rubinstein, Josef Strauss, Krzysztof Penderecki, Benjamin Britten, and Giovanni Gabrieli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Johann Nepomuk Hummel ranks 7. Before him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Marie Thérèse of France, Louis Bonaparte, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, Humphry Davy, and José de San Martín. After him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Bernardo O'Higgins, Clemens Brentano, and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Among people deceased in 1837, Johann Nepomuk Hummel ranks 8. Before him are Alexander Pushkin, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, Charles Fourier, Hortense de Beauharnais, John Constable, and Akbar II. After him are John Field, Giacomo Leopardi, Georg Büchner, François Gérard, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Johann Nepomuk Hummel ranks 8 out of 418. Before him are Elizabeth of Hungary (1207), Philipp Lenard (1862), Gyula Andrássy (1823), Jozef Tiso (1887), Gustáv Husák (1913), and Francis II Rákóczi (1676). After him are Ferenc Szálasi (1897), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Rudolf von Laban (1879), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), and Juraj Jánošík (1688).

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Among COMPOSERS In Slovakia

Among composers born in Slovakia, Johann Nepomuk Hummel ranks 1. After him are Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), Franz Schmidt (1874), Alexander Moyzes (1906), Ján Cikker (1911), Alphons Czibulka (1842), Tibor Serly (1901), and Vladimír Godár (1956).

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