Johann Nepomuk Hummel Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 89 (1819)

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (Born 14 November 1778 Pressburg, Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia) Died 17 October 1837 (aged 58) Weimar, SaxeWeimarEisenach (now Thuringia, Germany) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. Piano Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 89 (1819) I. Allegro moderato II. Larghetto (17:00) III. Finale: Vivace (24:53) Stephen Hough, piano and English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Bryden Thomson Piano Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 89 was composed in Vienna in 1819 and published in Leipzig in 1821. Unlike his earlier piano concerti, which closely followed the model of Mozart s, the B minor concerto along with the slightly earlier Concerto No. 2 is written in a protoRomantic style that anticipates the later stylistic developments of composers such as Frédéric Chopin and Felix Mendelssohn. Description by Robert Cummings Hummel s piano sonatas are generally considered his most comp