Composers

Friedrich August Kummer

Cello
Piano
Violin
Orchestra
Viola
Clarinet
String ensemble
Duet
Piece
Divertimento
Fantasia
Étude
Romance
Capriccio
Adagio
Variation
Airs
by popularity

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10 Melodic Etudes, Op.572 Concert Duos for Violin and Cello, Op.672 Divertissements sur des thêmes de l’opéra 'Le prophete', Op.942 Duos Concertans for Violin and Cello2 Pieces for Amateurs, Op.273 Cello Duets, Op.223 Duos for 2 Cellos, Op.1653 Duos for Violin and Cello, Op.153 Romances sentimentales6 Duos and a Capriccio, Op.336 Duos for 2 Cellos, Op.156

A

Adagio et variations, Op.31Airs célèbres, Op.142

C

Concertino

D

Divertissement, Op.2

F

Fantaisie sur les motifs de l'opéra 'Lucia de Lammermoor', Op.68Faust Meditation, Op.131

G

Grande Fantaisie sur un Thème favori de Robert le Diable et un Thème original de Molique, Op.26

L

Les Soirées du Nord, Op.115

P

Pièce de salon, Op.93Pièces de Salon, Op.130Potpourri on Themes from Preciosa, Op.3

R

Reminiscences des Opéras de Rossini et de Bellini, Op.74Rondo for Cello and Orchestra

S

Soirée musicale pour les Amateurs, Op.49Soirée musicale, Op.49

T

Transcriptionen beliebter Lieder von Franz Schubert, Op.117

V

Violoncell-Schule für den ersten Unterricht, Op.60
Wikipedia
Friedrich August Kummer (5 August 1797 – 22 August 1879), born in Meiningen, Germany, was a cellist, pedagogue, and composer.
As a child, his family moved to Dresden on an invitation by the court chapel to his father, an oboist. Kummer, initially an oboist, took an interest in the violoncello and studied with notable performers Friedrich Dotzauer and Bernhard Romberg.
In 1814 he was admitted into the Dresden chapel as an oboist, since there were no violoncello vacancies. In the same year Carl Maria von Weber appointed Kummer as a violoncellist at the Royal Opera House.
Kummer became an acclaimed performer and in 1850 he was appointed as the principal violoncellist at the court chapel after Dotzauer retired. Kummer himself retired in 1864. His son Friedrich Kummer was born in 1865.
In 1839 Kummer wrote a method, Violoncelloschule für den ersten Unterricht (Violoncello School for Preliminary Instruction), Op. 60, for the violoncello that to this day remains very popular.