Karl Amadeus Hartmann


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[details ←] Symphony No. 6
[details ←] Symphony No. 8
[details ←] Symphony No. 7
[details ←] Symphony No. 4 orchestra,
[details ←] Lamento
[details ←] Piano Sonata 27 April 1945 Piano,
[details ←] String Quartet 2 S.s.
[details ←] String Quartet No. 1
[details ←] Symphonie Concertante (Symphony No. 5)
[details ←] Symphony No. 1 (Versuch Eines Requiems)
[details ←] Symphony No. 3
[details ←] Violin Sonata 1 Violin Solo (1927) Violin,
[details ←] Symphony No. 2 - Adagio for Large Orchestra
[details ←] Das Deutsche Kirchenlied. Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Melodien, Abteilung III: Die Melodien aus gedruckten Quellen bis 1680. Band 1/2
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[details ←] Chamber Concerto
[details ←] Chamber Concerto Piano, Clarinet,
[details ←] Concerto for Piano, Winds & Percussion Piano, Percussion,

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Born: 2 August 1905 — München — Germany
Died: 5 December 1963 — München — Germany
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Hartmann is the next significant symphonist in the Austro-German tradition after Mahler, and the last 30 years of his career can be viewed as primarily a dialogue with symphonic form, an attempt to establish whether it can have continuing relevance in the terrible times the composer was living through. The elements of Hartmann’s language, ranging from jazz to post-Bergian expressionism and post-Hindemithian motoric toccata writing, often - perhaps predominantly - may seem to fail to cohere into an expressive unity. The symphonies are monumental constructions with fractured, facetted surfaces and a deep vein of existential Angst. (In this sense there is a kinship of expression with Allan Pettersson.) After his death the eight numbered symphonies were discovered to have been preceeded by an equal number of unnumbered symphonic works, some of which were partly re-composed in the post-war scores, making his catalogue quite complex.

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Life

Hartmann was the son of one painter and the brother of another. He studied with Joseph Haas at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich (1924-27) and afterwards was encouraged by Hermann Scherchen. After the Nazis came to power he refused to allow his music to be performed in Germany (instead several important premieres took place abroad) and he remained an ‘internal exile’ during the War, refusing to co-operate with the regime. In 1941-2 he studied privately with Anton Webern. After the War, partly because he was politically untainted, Hartmann was appointed Musikdramaturg at the Bavarian State Opera and founded the ‘Musica Viva’ Festival Concerts in Munich to present music that had been banned during the Nazi era and to encourage the production of new music by German composers. He thus became a key figure in the revival of music in Germany and wielded considerable powers of patronage. He gave encouragement to Hans Werner Henze and befriended Dallapiccola. He received many honours and was invited to become professor of Music at the Hochschule in Cologne and in the Berlin Conservatory, but declined and preferred to stay in Munich. Despite his position of influence, his personal popularity and his unquestioned rectitude of principle, Hartmann’s own music - especially his devotion to symphonic form - was probably viewed by many of the younger generation as old-fashioned, and even now is probably not rated at its proper worth.

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2 April 1948: Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Munich, Germany.
24 April 1953: Premiere of Symphony no. 6, in Munich, Germany.
22 June 1957: Premiere of Symphony no. 1 (new version), in Vienna, Austria.
9 July 1957: Premiere of Simplicius Simplicissimus (new version), in Mannheim, Germany.
25 January 1963: Premiere of Symphony no. 8, in Cologne, Germany.
29 May 1988: Premiere of Wachsfigurenkabinett, in Munich, Germany.
20 May 1989: Premiere of Sinfonia Tragica, in Munich, Germany.
11 May 1990: Premiere of Klagegesang, in Pittsburgh, USA.

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