Franz Rummel was a German

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 pianist, born in England

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 and active across continental Europe

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.

Rummel was born in London

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 into a prominent German musical family, the son of pianist Joseph Rummel and grandson of composer and conductor Christian Rummel. He studied under Louis Brassin

Louis Brassin

Louis Brassin was a Belgian pianist, composer and music educator. He is best known now for his piano transcription of the Magic Fire Music from Wagner's Die Walküre.-Career:...

 at the Brussels Conservatory, winning the first prize in 1872. He gave his first concert in Brussels, on November 24, 1872. In 1877–78 he toured through Holland with Ole Bull

Ole Bull

Ole Bornemann Bull was a Norwegian violinist and composer.-Background:Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden . His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect...

 and Minnie Hauk

Minnie Hauk

thumb|Minnie Hauk in a [[cabinet card]] photograph, ca. 1880Amalia Mignon Hauck , was an American operatic soprano....

, and embarked on American tours in 1878, 1886, and 1898. He taught 1884–85 at Julius Stern

Julius Stern

Julius Stern was a German musician.Stern was born at Breslau. He received his elementary education in music from the violinist Peter Lüstner, and at the age of nine played at concerts...

's Conservatory, and then at Theodor Kullak

Theodor Kullak

Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer, and teacher.-Background:Kullak was born in Krotoschin in the Grand Duchy of Posen, in Wielkopolska - western part of Poland taken during the second partition of Poland by Kingdom of Prussia. He began his piano studies as a pupil of Albrecht Agthe in...

's, both in Berlin

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. In 1897 he received the title of Professor from Eduard, Duke of Anhalt

Eduard, Duke of Anhalt

Eduard Georg Wilhelm, Duke of Anhalt was a German prince of the House of Ascania and the penultimate ruler of the Duchy of Anhalt from April to September 1918.-Early life:...

. By the start of his third American tour in 1898, he had played in about 700 concerts.

He married a daughter of telegraph inventor Samuel Morse; one of their sons, Walter Morse Rummel

Walter Morse Rummel

Walter Morse Rummel was a prominent pianist, especially associated with Claude Debussy's works, as well as a composer and music editor. He was of German-English descent and active mainly in France....

, was also a well-known pianist.