Joseph Friedrich Hummel (14 August 1841 – 29 August 1919) was an Austrian choral conductor,

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and music teacher. Father of musicologist Walter Hummel, he was a musician and promoter of the works of Wagner, Bruckner and

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

. 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

Born in

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, Hummel studied music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München under Franz Lachner and worked as theater

kapellmeister (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

in Innsbruck,

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, Troppau and Vienna, as well as conductor of the Brünn City Theatre from 1876 to 1879. He became director of the

Mozarteum Orchestra The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg is an Austrian orchestra, based in the town and state of Salzburg. The orchestra gives concerts in several Salzburg venues, including the ''Großes Festspielhaus'', the Great Hall of the Stiftung Mozarteum. I ...

and head of the newly established music school International Mozarteum Foundation from 1880 to 1908. There, he played with the orchestra that he founded, the women's choir and led the Salzburger Liedertafel (amateur male choir) from 1882 until 1912, organizing several major choral festivals in Salzburg, and thus gaining the reputation as a fine Mozart conductor. Hummel died in Salzburg in 1919 at the age of 78.

Works

Hummel wrote the opera ''Der Vampyr'' (1862), two concertos for

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and orchestra, choral and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

. *Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. posth. (1975) *Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. posth. (1976) *''Mandolinata'' for string sextet, Op. 61 (1910) *Concertante Piece in B-flat major, Op. 201 \ *Trio in B-flat (1885) *Trio in B-flat major *Trio in B-flat minor *Mass in F minor *Mass in E-flat minor *Pastoral Mass *''Herz-Jesu Lieder''

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