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About Hummel's opera

I will organize the works and leave notes about Hummel's operas.

The only opera left by Hummel to be published during his lifetime was "Mattilde von Guise', Op.100. This opera is probably the most popular work.

The opera "Mattilde von Guise", Op. 100, is a three-act opera, originally premiered in Vienna in 1811 at the Kältnator Theater in the German Singspiel. This opera received great acclaim from its first performance, and a piano transcription by Hummel himself was even published. A revised edition in 1821 during the Weimar Kapellmeister era, with a revised Italian libretto and some of the music from the first edition, was performed in Weimar, Berlin, and Riga. "Mathilde de Guise" became one of Hummel's most famous operas, but it was forgotten after his death and was removed from the repertoire until 2008, when it was performed in Laon, France, with plans for its first recording.

It is an opera that ends with a happy ending and contains light comedic elements, but the music is a very attractive work, studded with beautiful arias, duets, and light ensemble pieces, and has a similar character to Mozart, Rossini, Cherubini, and Spontini. Masu. My personal impression is that the music is similar to Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.


Currently, a reprint of the performance performed in Laon, France in 2008 has been recorded, and this is the only complete version of the opera.

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1. < 10 operas are thought to be operable in existence >

  • Opera “Dankgefuhl einer Geretteten”, S.29 ◇1799

  • Opera Buffa "Don Anchise Campione", S.42 ◇1800

  • Opera Buffa “Le vicende d'Amore”, WoO.26(S.56) ◇1804

  • Grand Opera "Die Messenier", WoO.29(S.61) ◇1805-10

  • Opera “Die vereitelten Ranke”, WoO.27(S.71) ◇1806

  • Singspiel “Mattilde von Guise”, Op.100 ◇1810

  • Singspiel “Der Junker in der Mühle”, WoO.28(S.90) ◇1812

  • Opera “Fünf sind Zwey”, S.95 ◇1813

  • Singspiel “The Prince of the Mill” S.97 ◇1813

  • Singspiel “Die Eselshaut oder Die blaue Insel”, S.101 ◇1814

2. < pasticcio or collaborative piece >

  • Singspiel "Die guten Nachrichten", Op.61(S.103) ◇1814

* Piecing together music from Mozart, Girovets, Weigl, Kanne, and Beethoven, Hummel composed an overture, a quartet, and two trios

*Solo piano for the overture The edition is S.148

3. < disappeared >

  • Singspiel “TDie Ruckfahrt des Kaisers”, Op.69  ◇1814*Disappeared Only the piano solo version survives

  • Operetta “Die beyden Genies”, S.65  ◇1805*Disappeared

4. < unfinished and fragment >

  • Singspiel “Stadt und Land ”, S.85 ◇1810*Unfinished

  • Opera “IL Viaggiator ridicolo” WoO.30(S.25) ◇1797*Unfinished

  • Opera Buffa “Demagorgon”, S.41 ◇1800
    * Fragment Repurposed into “Don Anchise Campione”

  • Opera "Attila", S.163 ◇1825-1827 *Unfinished* Disappeared

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