Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) was a pupil of Mozart, a prot?g? of Haydn, a friendly rival of Beethoven, and renowned throughout Europe as one of the greatest pianists of his day, a sought-after...
A Mozart admirer and music education reformer at the recently opened Paris Conservatoire (1795), Charles-Simon Catel's Les Bayad?res (1810), set in India, is an operatic masterpiece that competed...