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J.P.E. Hartmann

Sonate for klaver i a-mol

Piano Sonata in A Minor

Sonate für Klavier in a-moll

Opus 80
HartW 119
JPEW III/1 no. 5
DF 47

Dedicatee: Kammerherre Lehnsgreve C.A. Lerche Lerchenborg

Composition: 1876-1883.

Hartmann started working on this piano sonata sometime during the 1870s and end-dated the first two movements on 11 October 1876, nine years before the final version was published. During the following years it underwent a lot of changes, so that the two versions virtually assume the character of being two different works, (See JPEW III/1).

1876 version

Instrumentation: pf.pianoforte (piano)

Key: G minor

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Sketches

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Sketch]

24 pages; 35 x 26 cm.

6 bifolios. Written in pencil. Paper: 12 staves. Numerous delitions, corrections and additions. On the first nine pages scattered numbers from "11" to "16" can be found. On top of p. 7 is added "Rhapsodisk"; on pp. 9-10 is added "Vi-de No. 6". The six bifolios, of which one is erroneously divided into two single folios, are paginated 1 to 22 in a later hand; it is not clear whether this pagination reflects the correct order of the bifolios.

Sketches for a number of unidentified works including the A minor Sonata. Both keys and thematic material indicate that the sketches belong to the early version of the Sonata.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København MA ms 0468 mu 8308.2687.

Score, autograph, fair copy and sketches

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Fair copy]

48 pages; 34.5 x 25.5 cm.

Title page: Sonate / N^o 2 / for P.F.

Written in brown ink with numerous pencil corrections. Paper: 12 & 14 staves. Bottom corner of the first folio torn off. On top of p. 3 added in pencil: "trspn til a mol" (to be transposed to A minor). The fair copy of the two first movements in G minor and E flat major, respectively, paginated in pencil in foreign hand 1-21. At the right bottom corner of p. 21 dated: "11/10 76.". With numerous corrections and additions made in connection with the revision of the Sonata in 1883.

DK-Kk C II, 7 Hartmanns Samling 226 (Kapsel S - Studier).

1885 version

Instrumentation: pf.pianoforte (piano)

Key: A minor

Music

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Score, autograph, fair copy (1883 version)

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score, Fair copy, Complete]

33 pages; 35 x 26 cm.

9 bifolios (separate folios with a different stave lay-out) and a single unpaginated folio with a various inserts; the original fol. 4 has erroneously been separated into two folios. Written in black ink. Paper: 14 staves. Between pp. 30 and 31 and between pp. 32 and 33 an unpaginated, crossed-out page. After p. 34 one blank page. Dating on p. 22 after the third movement: "4/7 83". Dating after the last movement: "Nærum Septt. 1883".

Fair copy partly based on numerous corrections in the sources of the original version from 1876.

DK-Kk MA ms 0467 mu 8308.2686.

Score, print, first edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, First edition, Complete]

Fingering: August Winding

Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen May 1885.

29 pages.

Title page: Kammerherre / Lehnsgreve Lerche Lerchenborg / tilegnet. / SONATE / (N^o 2) / for / PIANOFORTE / af / J.P.E. Hartmann. / Op. 80. / Forsynet med Fingersætning af Aug. Winding. / Forlæggerens Eiendom for alle Lande / KJÖBENHAVN. / Wilhelm Hansens Musik-Forlag.

The first edition was published on the occasion of Hartmann's 80th birhday on 14 May 1885. A copy of this edition bears a dedication to the Danish Queen Louise, wife of King Christian IX, signed by Hartmann "Mai 1885" (DK-Kk, D 24). This also goes for the copy sent to the widow of the dedicatee, Count Lerche Lerchenborg, proving that the edition with the sentence “forsynet med Fingersætning…” (fingerings added), contrary to Dan Fog’s statement in his catalogue, is the original edition. In fact, both editions have fingerings in the music text itself.

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Letters:

1 Feb. 1885, Lerchenborg	from C.A. Lerche to J.P.E. Hartmann, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 3392 4º no. 185. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 1013)
21 Feb. 1885, Copenhagen	from J.P.E. Hartmann to Wilhelm Hansens Musikforlag, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København Palsbos Samling D. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 1015)
30 Apr. 1885, Lerchenborg	from Cornelie Lerche to J.P.E. Hartmann, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 3392 4º no. 186. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 1022)
19 Sept. 1888, Bad Skodsborg	from Hans von Bülow to J.P.E. Hartmann, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 3392 4º no. 59. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 1168)

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HartW

J.P.E. Hartmann. Thematic-Bibliographic Catalogue of His Works

Sonate for klaver i a-mol

Piano Sonata in A Minor

Sonate für Klavier in a-moll

1876 version

Music

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2.

Sources

Sketches

Score, autograph, fair copy and sketches

1885 version

Music

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2.

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4.

Sources

Score, autograph, fair copy (1883 version)

Score, print, first edition

Performances

Documents

Bibliography