Pianist and composer Johann Hummel (1778-1837) began as a child prodigy who was taught for two years for free by Mozart and later by Haydn, and later still was friends with Beethoven and Schubert and ...
Derived originally from a Ukrainian musical form, in the compositions of Czech composer Antonín DvoÅ™ák the "dumka" or plural "dumky" refers to music with sudden mood changes from melancholy to ...