Composers

Franz Hünten

Piano
Piano four hands
Violin
Cello
Flute
Variation
Rondo
Fantasia
Piece
Dance
Waltz
Rondinos
Quadrille
Trio
Étude
by popularity

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12 Études mélodiques, Op.812 Airs variés, Op.772 Bluettes musicales, Op.822 Rondeaux sur des motifs de Rossini, Op.422 Rondeaux, Op.1102 Rondeaux, Op.553 Airs variés, Op.1193 Bagatelles, Op.523 Bijoux, Op.1333 Cavatines italiennes, Op.973 Mélodies élégantes, Op.514 Rondeaux faciles, Op.304 Rondinos, Op.21

A

Air russe, Op.108Au gré des ondes, Op.195

C

Cavatina alla Polacca de Carafa

D

Duo Concertant, Op.23

F

Fantaisie arabe, Op.136Fantaisie brillante sur 'Nabucco', Op.127Fantaisie sur 'La Donna del Lago', Op.24Feuilles d'album, Op.201Fleurs de bois, Op.159

I

Italia, Op.115

L

Le désir du pays, Op.147Le retour au châlet, Op.144Les bords du Rhin, Op.120Les caractères, Op.118Les émeraudes, Op.128Les italiennes, Op.157Les jeunes compagnes, Op.95Les perles, Op.117Les topazes, Op.129

M

Mélodies célèstes, Op.113Mélodies gracieuses, Op.78Méthode de Piano, Op.60Mosella, Op.180

P

Piano Pieces, Op.48Piano Trio No.2, Op.91Piano Trio, Op.14Premier quadrille de contredanses variées, Op.63

R

Rondoletto, Op.15Rondo-schottisch sur un thème favori de 'Marco Spada', Op.186

S

Stradella et Martha, Op.168Suisse et Tyrol, Op.89

T

Triade mélodique, Op.224

V

Variation on a theme from Auber's 'Gustave', Op.58Variations brillantes sur une cavatine de Meyerbeer, Op.41Virelay et rondeau martial, Op.100
Wikipedia
Franz Hünten, otherwise known as François Hünten (26 December 1792 – 22 February 1878), was a German pianist and composer of salon music.
He was born in Koblenz, the son of the organist Daniel Hünten, who taught Henri Herz. Like Herz he moved to Paris and entered its Conservatorium in 1819. He wrote pleasant and technically undemanding piano music: rondos, fantasies, variations, dances, etc. Of Hünten’s 267 published works, the vast majority were written for piano solo or duet. His first success was Variations militaires à 4 mains, op. 12, a simple imitation of Ignaz Moscheles's variations on the Alexandermarsch, and soon his popularity was such that for one work of ten pages he was paid 2000 francs. Two years after publishing the instruction book Nouvelle méthode pour le piano-forte, op. 60 (1833), he moved back to Koblenz, where he continued to compose; he moved back to Paris after a few years but retired for good in 1848.
Hünten's music was wildly popular throughout France, Germany, and England, but critical notices inevitably described it as trifling and later assessments have been much the same. His brothers, Wilhelm, a piano teacher at Koblenz, and Peter Ernst, a piano teacher at Duisberg, also composed piano music of a similar character. His son, Emil Hünten, was a painter.