Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann - String Quartet in A major (fragment 1852)

Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

 

 

Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (14 May 1805 – 10 March 1900) was a Danish composer

String Quartet in A major (fragment 1852)

Clara Bæk, violin.
Sophia Bæk, violin.
Stine Hasbirk, viola.
Therese Åstrand, cello.

J.p.e. Hartmann was the son of musician August Wilhelm Hartmann and was trained as a lawyer, but also a skilled organ player and already as a 19-year-old in 1824, he was appointed organist at the garrison church, and thus succeeded his father.
In 1827, he became a teacher at the newly created Music Conservatory, and with a second job as a Secretary in The civil Indrullerings Commission, he was so prosperous that he could marry in 1829 married Emma Zinn, the daughter of a wealthy agent. Emma died, however, already in 1851, after which Hartmann later remarried.
The post of organist he maintained to very late in life, but eventually came to work on himself to write music to fill a lot. He was also professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1849 and Director of the Music Conservatory in 1890, when he succeeded Niels w. Gade. Hartmann was co-founder of the Conservatory in 1867.
In 1836 was Hartmann with to start Music Association in Copenhagen, and in 1839 he was corresponding with to start Student-Singing Association. He was later President of many years of both associations.

Throughout his long life experienced Hartmann large shift in the prevailing musical styles, and it affected his own compositions. His earliest works belonged to the wiener klassicistiske style, and against the career's end, he ended up in the senromantiske style. At the same time, you can find a Nordic tone in much of his music.
Hartmann wrote music very early. The first surviving compositions, from his beginnings as an organist, where he was about 20 years.