HUMMEL, Johann Nepomuk

Hummel stood foremost in his day among a school of performers now rapidly dying out. This school was an advance, in point of execution, on that of Clementi, but scarcely so advanced as that headed by Moscheles, and later by Thalberg and Chopin. Its characteristic feature was the use of the uniform legato touch so highly esteemed by Moscheles, and a finical refinement in the interpretation of the classical masters. It was the school which immediately succeeded the cantabile style of...