Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>:

>Up to that time, while deprived of Wolfgang Amadeus' oeuvre, we would
>have had the benefit of his contemporaries, Haydn, of course, but also of
>composers who are now often considered the second team, if considered at
>all, like Salieri, Hummel, and Dittersdorf.

I don't understand why Hummel always is so disregarded.  I love his music.
All I have heard made my heart go kloppeti-klopp.  I suspect one reason can
be that he didn't write any work in any major genre, except for the
pianoconcertos, but those are written for chamber orchestra.

Mats Norrman
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