Previous posts for November 14th are here: Leopold Mozart; Aaron Copland (2019) and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (2020)
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 1778 – 17 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Mozart, Salieri, and Haydn. He was also friends with Beethoven and Schubert. -Wikipedia
Mixed Metaphors
A question that’s hard to resolve
When musical styles evolve,
Is whether to change and be hip,
Or stay with the course of your ship.
Herr Hummel, unluckily saddled
With a period when eras were straddled,
Was charged with the project of linking
Two eras of musical thinking.
He was thus neither fowl, nor a fish,
Which made a bewildering dish,
A most miscellaneous fascicle
Compounding Romantic and Classical.
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Post Mortem
Although Hummel died famous, with a lasting posthumous reputation apparently secure, he and his music were quickly forgotten. Due to a rising number of available recordings and an increasing number of live concerts across the world, his music is now becoming reestablished in the classical repertoire. -- adapted from Wikipedia
If you think that your place is secure
When you, at last, shall pass,
It will come as a shocker I’m sure
To learn you’re only grass.
And this, I am saddened to say,
Was Hummel’s sad discovery,
Although it’s a fact that today
He’s made a fair recovery.
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