J.N. Hummel. Collection of first and early editions for piano and for chamber ensemble, 1820s-1840s

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Collection of first and early editions of music for piano duet, piano & chamber ensemble and solo piano, 1820s-1840s

1) Grand Trio pour le Pianoforte, Violin et Violoncelle, Op. 93, Berlin: E.H.G. Christiani [c. 1820-1822], FIRST EDITION, parts for piano, violin and cello (25, 6 & 6 pp.), engraved without plate number unbound, small tears and foxing to title [Zimmerschied p. 138];

2) Grande-Sonate pour le piano-forte à quatre mains Op. 92, Vienna: A. Diabelli et Comp, 51 pages, plate number C. & D. 670, [c. 1825]; bound with--Nocturne à quatre mains Op. 99, FIRST EDITION, Leipzig: au Bureau de musique de C. F. Peters, 27 pages, oblong 4to, including the separate parts for 2 horns ("Corno Primo [... Secondo] in F. ad libitum"), 2 copies (each [4] pages), upright 4to (c. 33.5 x 26.5cm), all engraved with plate number 1764, [c. 1824]--together with an edition for piano duet of Mozart's string quintet K. 593 (Simrock); 3 editions in one volume, oblong 4to, (24.5 x 33cm), contemporary marbled boards, manuscript label to cover, ownership inscription ("Lichtenstein"), [Zimmerschied, p. 144];

3) Grand Septuor Op. 74, nouvelle édition originale, Vienna: Artaria, engraved throughout, plate number 2451, parts for piano (55 pages), flute, oboe, horn (in F & D), viola, cello & bass, unbound as issued, original stitching;

4) Grand Quintuor Op. 74 [the composer’s own arrangement], first edition, Artaria, plate number 2452 [c. 1816], bound with: Grosses Quintet für das Piano-Forte, Violine, Viola, Violoncell und Contrabass, Vienna: Haslinger [1826], plate number 3801, contemporary boards, ownership inscription (“Marie Lichtenstein”), the string parts unbound: violin, viola, cello and bass [Zimmerschied pp. 114 & 130];

5) Grosses Concert für das Piano-Forte Op. 85, [parts for piano solo and piano accompaniment], Vienna: Tobias Haslinger, [c. 1820], unbound, [Zimmerschied, p.128];

6) Große Sonate für das Piano-Forte Op. 81, Vienna: Haslinger [after 1826], engraved additional title (“Musée Musical”), later boards, ownership inscription to title (“Ernst Rudorff. Lichtenstein Nachlass”), some browning; with a reissue of Op. 81 by Carl Haslinger;

7) Études pour le Piano-Forte Op. 125, Vienna: Haslinger, [1833], FIRST EDITION, engraved, plate number 6551, publisher’s yellow wrappers, [Zimmerschied p.185];

8) Ouverture de l'opera Mathilde de Guise [Op. 100], FIRST EDITION, Leipzig: au Bureau de Musique de Peters [c. 1825], plate number 1761 [Zimmerschied, p. 149), bound with early piano editions of overtures by Mozart (6, some for piano duet), Spohr, Weber (first edition of "Oberon"), Cherubini, Spontini and others, 13 items in one, oblong 4to, contemporary boards, manuscript label to cover;

9) Favoritrondo für das Piano-Forte Op. 11, Berlin: F.S. Lischke, [1830s], engraved throughout, plate number 1795; -- 10) Fantaisie Op. 18, Lischke, [1820s], first German edition, plate number 1210, margins repaired at start and end of the volume; --11) Rondo zu Concert pour le Pianoforte Op. 89, first edition for piano four hands, Leipzig: C.F. Peters, [before 1844]; 12) Rondeau brillant Op. 109, Vienna: Haslinger, lithographed (later C19), together with other early arrangements of music by Hummel, and arrangements by Hummel of music by Mozart 

This first edition of the Nocturne Op. 99 includes the rarely-encountered ad libitum horn parts--not mentioned by Zimmerschied, but called for in the publisher's label affixed to the first page ("On peut aussi accompagner ce Nocturne avec deux Cors dont la Musique est ci-jointe") and engraved with the same plate number.

J.N. Hummel (1778-1837) lodged with Mozart in Vienna c.1786-1787, as his pupil, and in return later taught Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang.

LITERATURE:

D. Zimmerschied, Thematisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Johann Nepomuk Hummel, (1971)

PROVENANCE:

Marie Lichtenstein--Ernst Rudorff