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Hans Sommer
20.07.1837—26.04.1922

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Hans Sommer

The Composer

Born 20 July 1837, died 26 April 1922 in Brunswick, Germany

From 1847: regular piano lessons

1854–1858: studied Mathematics in Göttingen, lessons in composition with Julius Otto Grimm, a friend of Schumann. Met Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim in Göttingen

1863–1870: founder and artist director of the Braunschweiger Verein für Konzertmusik (Brunswick Association for Concert Music), concerts with Joseph Joachim, Clara Schumann, Hans von Bülow

1865: world première of his first opera Der Nachtwächter at the Hoftheater in Brunswick

Around 1875: five piano songs published as op. 1 by Henri Litolff’s publishing house

Composition lessons in Weimar with Franz [...]

About the Music

Late-romantic gems

In the 1880s, Brunswick-born Hans Sommer (1837–1922) secured a place for himself in the concert halls for some three decades with his songs. As far as the development of the late-romantic piano song was concerned, Erich Valentin – Sommer’s only biographer to date – placed the composer immediately prior to Hugo Wolf: “In him, the lines from Schumann and Liszt converge – perhaps for the first and only time.” Sommer’s songs are now enjoying a renaissance and have been released on CD.

Hans Sommer studied music privately and took lessons in composition with Franz Liszt, among others. He was the Chairman (and, along with Richard Strauss, the [...]

10 of 16 Works

Ach neige, du Schmerzenreiche | for medium voice and orchestra 1921
An den Mond | for medium voice and orchestra 1920
Des Harfners Gesang | for medium voice and orchestra 1920
Der Fischer | for medium voice and orchestra 1920
Frech und froh | for medium voice and orchestra 1920
König und Floh | for medium voice and orchestra 1921
3 Lieder | for mixed choir 1921
Mailied | for medium voice and orchestra 1921
Mignon singt, als Engel angetan | for medium voice and orchestra 1920
Mignons Sehnen | for medium voice and orchestra 1920

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