{"id":524,"date":"2023-03-12T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danishdictioninartsong.dk\/?page_id=524"},"modified":"2023-12-14T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T08:40:52","slug":"emma-hartmann-ny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danishdictioninartsong.dk\/index.php\/portofolio\/emma-hartmann-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"EMMA HARTMANN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1807-1851<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

– the wealthy and highly gifted muse to Copenhagen\u2019s cultural elite<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do not know of many works by Emma Hartmann: the Danish composer was busy looking after her husband J.P.E. Hartmann and their ten children. And her music was usually only \u201cthought up\u201d by herself and then written down by her husband or good friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, we know all about her background! Her childhood home is in fact one of the most well-documented of all homes in Denmark at the beginning of the 19th century. Around the time of her birth, her aunt Sophie wrote two widely-read books about life in the Copenhagen merchant\u2019s household. Sophie\u2019s brother \u2013 Emma\u2019s father \u2013 was the merchant Johann Friedrich Zinn from Kv\u00e6sthusgade with a lot of money and high cultural ambitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Emma grew up with frequent music evenings in the family, and with visits from the composers Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) and C.E.F. Weyse, who were friends of the family.The invaluable memoirs written by her aunt include Grandmamas Bekiendelser (\u2018Grandma\u2019s Stories\u2019)<\/em> from 1807 and Grandmamas Reisedagbog (\u2018Grandma\u2019s Travel Diary\u2019)<\/em> from 1810, which contain descriptions of the ins and outs of their everyday life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading them, we gain the impression of a warm and humorous environment. The home\u2019s rich musical life was for example the happy result of an unhappy love affair: The aunt had fallen in love with an Irishman named John Christmas, with no hope of a future together with him. As a result, she had decided as a young girl \u201cnever to forget him, never to love anyone else\u201d and had fallen into a depression. \u201cMy father was worried about this,\u201d she wrote, \u201cand thinking that music might cheer me up, he asked me to arrange a concert with the help of our music masters. When this went well, he promised that we should have one every fortnight.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma\u2019s own infatuation had a rather better outcome: she apparently fell for J.P.E Hartmann at the age of just 15 or 16. However, the talented, two-year-older man needed to be able to support a family before there could be any talk of marriage, so when at the age of 19 he was appointed to the post of organist at the church of Garnisons Kirke, the final obstacle was removed. The couple continued to hold weekly musical soir\u00e9es, at which Hans Christian Andersen himself was a regular guest. Almost all of Emma Hartmann\u2019s own music dates from the very few years between the mid-1840s and her early death in childbirth. According to her aunt, she was highly gifted and a stimulating acquaintance \u2013 meeting her was like getting \u201ca shot of liqueur for the spirit\u201d, writes a friend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Collection<\/th>Op<\/th>No<\/th>Title<\/th>Poet<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Romancer og Sange Complet<\/td><\/td>7<\/td>Min Skat<\/a><\/td>Christian Winther<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Romancer og Sange Complet<\/td><\/td>18<\/td>Mismod<\/a><\/td>Christian Winther<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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