Bertold Hummel

Als Unterrichts- und Vortragsstück hat Bertold Hummels 1969 entstandene Sonatine op. 35 viele junge Musizierende auf ihrem Weg begleitet. Tausendfach in alle Welt verkauft, zählt sie zu den bekanntest...

With his 'Concerto classico' composed in 1999, Bertold Hummel enables violin pupils with only limited technical skills to play an entire little violin concerto. The second movement, Elegy, is now also...

The content and formal structure of the two-movement Poem have been subjectively borrowed from the poem Steps [Stufen] by Hermann Hesse. The frequently appearing short motifs in both parts of the work...

Although Bertold Hummel composed this Scherzo for bassoon and chamber orchestra more than fifty years ago, the piece still captivates every listener with its youthful, carefree liveliness. Virtuoso an...

Hummel's Vocalise is available in different editions (each with piano accompaniment) and, following 19th-century tradition, is conducive to breath phrasing, confidence in intonation and the methodolog...

Als Unterrichts- und Vortragsstück hat Bertold Hummels 1969 entstandene Sonatine op. 35 viele junge Musizierende auf ihrem Weg begleitet. Tausendfach in alle Welt verkauft, zählt sie zu den bekanntest...

Als umfassende, nicht nur chormusikalische Offenbarung erweist sich Bertold Hummels Adventskantate Offenbarung neuen Lebens für Alt-Solo, gemischten Chor und Kammerorchester op. 8. In seinem 1953 im A...

Ein kleiner Walzer für Streicher und Klavier als letzte klingende Liebeserklärung an seine Ehefrau Inken: Der heitere Tanzrhythmus der gut zwei minütigen Komposition ist durchzogen von melancholischen...

Stimmensatz chorisch - Streichorchester und Klavier

Commissioned by the Oldenburg State Theatre, 'Episodes' for full orchestra was created in 1962 and premiered as a ballet entitled 'Pas de deux'. The formal structure of the composition is based on the...

The pieces are meant as a kind of organ proper of Mass. Chorales and chants from the Catholic hymnbook are used for the music of the movements 'Halleluja', 'Offertorium' and 'Communio'. According to t...

Das Concertino classico für Violine und Klavier oder Streicher von Bertold Hummel entstand im Sommer 1999 als sein Enkelkind Fabian auf der Geige gerade die erste Lage beherrschte. Die Idee war, begin...

Best playability and musical spirit - this is what characterizes the music of Bertold Hummel who died in 2002, and why his music must be part of the repertoire of any amateur and semi-professional orc...

Best playability and musical spirit - this is what characterizes the music of Bertold Hummel who died in 2002, and why his music must be part of the repertoire of any amateur and semi-professional orc...

At funeral or memorial services and ceremonies, the traditional, slowly marching funeral music, the Tombeau, still plays an important musical role today. In most cases, such musics were created for a...

At funeral or memorial services and ceremonies, the traditional, slowly marching funeral music, the Tombeau, still plays an important musical role today. In most cases, such musics were created for a...

The Trio for flute, oboe and piano op. 95c is a personal homage to Olivier Messiaen whose death became known shortly before this work was composed. Melismas reminiscences of a bird song dominate - in...

The tales of Heinrich Hansjakob (1837 - 1916), the chronicler of life in the Black Forest, tell of folk musicians, wandering buskers, wedding party fiddlers, pipers and trumpeters to whose music the p...

The tripartite work harks back to musical practice from the pre-Baroque period when wind ensembles performed compact, brief pieces in churches, on town squares and from towers. The three movements Int...

Das Concertino classico für Violine und Klavier oder Streicher von Bertold Hummel entstand im Sommer 1999 als sein Enkelkind Fabian auf der Geige gerade die erste Lage beherrschte. Die Idee war, begin...

Bertold Hummel worked on his Adagietto for many years. Originally conceived as an Elegy for Strings in 1965, it was transformed into an Adagietto for String Sextet in 1978 and published for the first...