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Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World.(Book review)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World. By Mark Kroll. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. [xiv, 503p. ISBN-13 9780810859203. $85.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, appendix, index.
With his publication of Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World, Mark Kroll has filled an important gap in the literature. A student of Mozart and rival to Beethoven, Hummel was considered in his day to be one of Vienna's greatest pianists and composers, and yet very few monographs on Hummel are currently available in university libraries. The most notable works are Karl Benyovszky's J.N. Hummel: Der Mensch and Kunstler (Bratislava: ...
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