| Romance
for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 69c (1975) 
Duration:
4 Minutes Publisher:
Schott Music CB 200 / ISMN: M-001-14975-4
After the
great physical and mental exertions associated with the composition and
successful premiere of his one-hour anti-war ballet "The Last Flower" (after James Thurber),
Bertold Hummel retired to the holiday home of his friend Peter Jona
Korn in Dorfgastein in August 1975 and composed a whole series of
smaller compositions in a cheerful relaxed mood: Piano pieces for children, a piano sonatina, songs based on poems by Theodor Storm and the Romance for Violoncello and piano, which in its rapturous tone perhaps tells of the starry nights in the Austrian mountain landscape.
Martin Hummel
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