He was born in Koblenz, the son of the organist Daniel Hünten, who taught Henri Herz.

He wrote pleasant and technically undemanding piano music: rondos, fantasies, variations, dances, etc.

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.

[3][4] Two years after publishing the instruction book Nouvelle méthode pour le piano-forte, op.

Hünten's music was wildly popular throughout France, Germany, and England, but critical notices inevitably described it as trifling[5] and later assessments have been much the same.