● Despite his great success, Hummel seems to have been basically an unpretentious and warm person. His disciple Hiller describes the family's life in Weimar as fulfilling and peaceful. He believed in hard work and practiced intense but not excessive practice and composition to hone his skills and spirit. His pastimes were mainly gardening and walking. He was also a great talker and mastered German with a Viennese accent. According to Hiller, he was a very articulate man, but disliked discussion outside of his musical work, as it was considered boring.

 

-Grillparzer, who visited Hummel in 1826, was amused by his Viennese accent, which emerged from the conversations of Weimar intellectuals, and said it sounded the worst German he had ever heard. saying. Hummel was often playful, which seems to have suited his obese build. According to Rellstab, Hummel had a bourgeois face that did not look like an artist (this impression is the opposite of Beethoven's). However, this cheerful expression was often lost due to an excessive sense of economic crisis. His claims were undoubtedly factual at times, but given that he was sensitive to the fact that Beethoven and Mozart were also in dire straits, they were made at the time. must be put in There is no doubt that Hummel had a great business acumen. He maintained good relations with publishers such as CF Peters and Tobias Haslinger, who helped Hummel manage various international contracts and advised him on many of his investments. He has made it possible to publish across many countries, spearheaded composers in enforcing copyright laws that are valid in both Germany and Austria, and has also contributed to the turmoil that has pervaded the music publishing world. It was Hummel who made it possible for the composers to work within it. Always sensitive to the concept of success, on one occasion he was so enraged by the criticism of the Allegemeine musikalische Zeitung that he threatened to form a boycott of the paper. And the economic success was real. Estimates of his wealth vary, but by any calculation it is enormous, about 100,000 thalers (£20,000) and hundreds of rings, snuffboxes, and other gold and jewels. left behind items encrusted with

 

Received the Légion d'Honneur and the Weimar White Falcon, member of the Institut de France, the Societe des Enfons d'Apollons, the Music Society of Geneva, the Dutch Society for the Advancement of Music, the Musikverein of Vienna, and one of the earliest members of the Philharmonic Society of London. was an honorary member.