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Memorial House of J. N. Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel is one the most significant composers of the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. He was born on 14 November 1778 in Bratislava and died on 17 October 1837 in Weimar. After moving to Vienna, he studied with well-known musicians such as J. G. Albrechtsberger, A. Salieri and J. Haydn. He worked as a composer, bandleader and teacher in the cities of Eisenstadt, Stuttgart and Weimar. Into his work titled Great Piano School he incorporated his progressive methods of piano pedagogy.
By means of copies of graphical lists and archive documents the exhibition presents Hummels’s ties with his home town and contacts with personalities of the European culture.
The most valuable exhibits include the piano and two spinets played by J. N. Hummel. The interior ambiance is completed with the composer’s writing desk, his death mask and a model of the monument for Weimar. The miniature of the monument done by the goldsmith M. Weinstabl was modeled according to Hummel’s 1887 monument by the sculptor Viktor Tilgner, located today in Hviezdoslavovo námestie (Hviezdoslav Square) in Bratislava.
The most important works of Hummel’s extensive opus comprising several operas, ballets and cantatas, a number of chamber music pieces for solo piano, are considered his piano compositions. A display case offers a glimpse of valuable prints of Hummel’s compositions published in his lifetime as well as samples of his autographs. In the hall, one can find composer’s bust by Alojz Rigele.
Author of the exhibition: Mgr. Miriam Das Lehocká, SNM
Authors of the long-term exhibition Ján Batka and Bratislava (1845–1917): Mgr. Zuzana Francová and Mgr. Sylvia Urdová, PhD
| Monday | closed |
| Tuesday | 10.00 – 18.00 |
| Wednesday | 10.00 – 18.00 |
| Thursday | 10.00 – 18.00 |
| Friday | 10.00 – 18.00 |
| Saturday | 11.00 – 18.00 |
| Sunday | 11.00 – 18.00 |
| Last entry 30 minutes before closing time. | |
| New Year's Day (1. 1.) | closed |
| Good Friday | closed |
| Christmas Eve (24. 12.) | closed |
| Christmas Day (25. 12.) | closed |
| Second Christmas Day (26. 12.) | closed |
| New Year's Eve (31. 12.) | closed |
| General Admission | 3 € |
| Reduced Admission (children from 6 to 15, students, seniors) |
2 € |
| Family Ticket (2+3) | 7 € |
| Family Ticket (1+2) | 4 € |
| School Group (per person) | 1 € |
| Free Admission (children under the age of 6, disabled person card´s holders and their guides, teachers – one person per 10 students, ICOM and ICOMOS card holders, members of Union of Museums in Slovakia, Czech Association of Museums and Galleries, Bratislava CARD, MultiSport Card) |
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