Joseph Rummel

Joseph Rummel (Wiesbaden, 1818 – London, 1880) was a composer, pianist and clarinettist, the son of Christian Rummel, who gave him a thorough musical education with particular attention to the clarinet and the piano. After entering the service of the Duke of Oldenburg in Wiesbaden, he moved to Paris in 1842. Following a period in London, he lived in Paris from 1847 until 1870, when he returned to London, where he remained until his death.

He was known above all as a pianist and clarinettist. His output, estimated at more than 2,000 works, consists chiefly of transcriptions of operatic excerpts for solo piano and for piano duet, to which are added fantasias on operatic themes, waltzes, mazurkas and studies for piano. Most of it was published in Paris by Escudier, and in Mainz by Schott.