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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Volume 2, 1927
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1Stradivarius, and the tools and drawings of Antonius. In 1872 he classified the Gillott collection, a labour requiring the most accurate and certain knowledge, and in 1881 appeared his book on The Violin and its Music. He married a daughter of Dr. Steward, the inventor of the Euphonicon piano, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. He, again, was succeeded by his son,
3(4) GEORGE (b. near Warwick, Jan. 4, 1860). After being educated at Hampstead and in Paris, Hart entered his father's business, and is esteemed as a fine expert in the selection of wood for violins, while his firm is particularly noted for its exact reproductions of the work of Guarnerius, Stradivarius and others. With him has been associated for many years his brother, (5) HERBERT (b. 1883), who has devoted special attention to the manufacture of bows, which has gained for the firm a wide reputation as bow-makers.
5R. H. L., with addns.
7HARTMANN, HEINRICH (b. Reichstadt), was cantor and school teacher at Coburg about the beginning of the 17th century. He composed two books of sacred songs 5-10 v. (1613 and 1617); also masses and motets. (See Q.-L.)
9HARTMANN, a family of German origin established in Copenhagen for some four generations. (1) JOHANN ERNST (b. 1726; d. 1793) was a violinist and composer, who, after holding several musical posts at Breslau and Rudolstadt, became Kapellmeister to the Duke of Ploen, and went with him to Copenhagen. Here he was leader of the royal band from 1768, and wrote much music, now completely forgotten, with the exception of the song 'Kong Christian,' which first appeared in an opera, 'Die Fischer' (produced Jan. 31, 1780), and has since been adopted as the Danish National Hymn. His second son,
11(2) AUGUST WILHELM (b. 1775), held the post of organist to the Garrison Church in Copenhagen from 1800-50, and was the father of
13(3) JOHANN PETER EMILIUS (b. May 14, 1805; d. Mar. 10, 1900), who for many years held a high place among Danish composers. His opera 'Ravnem' (The Raven), to words by Hans Andersen, was produced Oct. 29, 1832. It was followed by 'Die goldnen Hörner' in 1834, and 'Die Corsaren' on Apr. 23, 1835, and 'Liden Kirsten' ('Little Christie') on May 12, 1846. Besides these he wrote much for the theatre in the way of incidental music, etc., as well as choral works (among them a cantata on the death of Thorwaldsen, 1848), songs, a symphony in G minor, dedicated to Spohr and performed at Cassel in 1838, and many piano pieces. See the Sammelbände of the Int. Mus. Ges., vol. ii. p. 455. He was made director of the Copenhagen Conservatorium in 1840. His son,
15(4) EMIL (b. Feb. 21, 1836; d. Copenhagen, July 18, 1898), studied with his father, and with N. W. Gade, his brother-in-law, held between 1861 and 1873 various appointments as organist, but subsequently devoted himself almost entirely to composition. In 1891 he succeeded Gade as director of the Musical Society of Copenhagen. Among his works, which have obtained great success both in Denmark and Germany, may be mentioned:
17Operas, 'Die Erlenmädchen' (1867), 'Die Nixe,' 'Die Korsikaner' and 'Runenzauber' (1896); a ballet 'Fjeldstuen'; 'Nordische Volkstänze' (op. 18), three symphonies, in E flat, A minor and D, an overture 'Ein nordische Heerfahrt' (op. 25), a choral cantata 'Winter and Spring' (op. 13), concertos for violin and violoncello, a serenade for piano, clarinet and violoncello (op. 24), and many songs.
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21BIBL.—W. BEHRÈND, J. P. E. Hartmann. (Copenhagen, 1918.)
23HARTVIGSON, (1) FRITS (b. Grenaa, Jutland, Denmark, May 31, 1841; d. Copenhagen, 1919), pianist, received instruction in music and on the piano from his mother, and at Copenhagen from Gade, Gebauer and Anton Rée. At the age of 14 he played in concerts in Copenhagen, and made a tour through Norway in 1858, at Christiania being personally complimented by Kjerulff. By assistance from the Danish Government he studied at Berlin from 1859-62 under Von Bülow, with whom he played there at a concert Liszt's A major concerto and Hungarian Fantasia, arranged for two pianos. He next played Rubinstein's third concerto at the Gewandhaus Concerts in 1861, and Schumann's concerto at Copenhagen under Gade in 1863. On the death of his father in the Prusso-Danish war, he came to England and played with great success Mendelssohn's 'Serenade and Allegro giojoso' at the Philharmonic, June 27, 1864. Thenceforward Hartvigson lived in England, with the exception of two years, 1873-75, when he was in St. Petersburg. He played at the Musical Union, and introduced there Schumann's trio in F, Apr. 24, 1866. He introduced Liszt's music at the Philharmonic, where he played that composer's first concerto on June 10, 1872. At the Crystal Palace he introduced Schubert's Fantasia, op. 15 (arranged by Liszt for piano and orchestra), on Oct. 6, 1866: also Rubinstein's fourth concerto, Nov. 16, 1872; and Bronsart's concerto, Sept. 30, 1876. He was officially appointed pianist to Queen Alexandra (when Princess of Wales) in 1873, and professor of music at the Normal College for the Blind at Norwood in 1875. He also played at the London Symphony Concerts on Jan. 10, 1888 (and subsequently at a Richter concert), Liszt's 'Todtentanz,' which he had introduced to the English public in 1878 under Bülow's direction. Hartvigson played at Copenhagen in 1872 and 1889, at Munich (under Bülow), in aid of the Bayreuth Building Fund, Aug. 24, 1872, and in concerts at St. Petersburg, Moscow and in Finland. In 1888 he was appointed professor at the R.A.M., and in 1894 an honorary member of the institution. In 1895 the King of Denmark made him a knight of the order of the Dannebrog. In 1905 he joined the teaching staff at the R.C.M. He retired in 1911 to his native country.
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