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J.P.E. Hartmann

Quatre caprices I-II

Capricer

Caprices

Opus 18
HartW 66
JPEW III/1 no. 7
DF 19

Dedicatees: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (vol. 1); Heinrich Marschner (vol. 2)

Composition: 1835.

The year 1835 has been added to Hartmann's manuscript in pencil at a later date, which, however, is a likely date as Hartmann brought the score with him on his tour through Europe in the spring and summer of 1836. During his stay in Leipzig, he visited the famous music publishers Breitkopf & Härtel, Fr. Kistner, Peters and Friedrich Hofmeister. The latter promised to publish some of Hartmann's works, starting with the Caprices which were published already in November the same year.

Instrumentation: pf.pianoforte (piano)

No. 1.

Allegro afettuoso

Key: C minor

No. 2.

Allegretto grazioso moderato

Key: D♭ minor

No. 3.

Allegro moderato assai

Key: A major

No. 4.

Allegro molto, con passione

Key: B♭ minor

No. 5.

Allegro passionato, non troppo

Key: B minor

No. 6.

Allegro animato, con grazia

Key: F major

No. 7. Canzone

Allegretto, quasi Andantino

Key: A major

No. 8.

Allegro con fuoco, assai

Key: D minor

Sketch

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

2 pages; 35 x 26 cm.

1 single folio. Written in pencil on recto, verso blank. Paper: 14 staves of which 9 are with music; the first six staves are sketches for No. 5, bb. 89-97 of the Wilhelm Hansen edition. The passage in question is missing in the original Hofmeister edition.
DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København MA ms 0483 mus 8309.0590.

Score, autograph, fair copy

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

32 pages; 24 x 35.5 cm.

Written in brown ink. Paper: 10 staves. 3 bifolios, paginated 1-11 with three caprices, 4 bifolios and 1 folio paginated 1-18 with four caprices, Nos. 1-4. In addition to "No 2" of the second gathering: "udskrives i C Takt" (to be copied with time signatur C); in the manuscript it is notated with the time signature "2/4", and every second bar-line is cancelled in pencil (the two very first cancelled bar-lines are done in ink.).

Contents of the autograph and the order of the caprices correspond with the first edition of 1837, apart from the fact that vol. 1 No. 4 (No. 11:6 in the Wilhelm Hansen editions) is missing in the manuscript, and the manuscript does not include the print's numbering of the first caprices. The articulation in the autograph corresponds with that of the Hofmeister edition, whereas it differs in many respects from that of the two Wilhelm Hansen editions. In the latter editions, published decades later than the first edition, many details in articulation are added.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 7 Hartmanns Samling 176 (Kapsel H - K).

Score, print, first edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, First edition, Complete]
Fr. Hofmeister, Leipzig Nov. 1836 (vol. 1); July 1837 (vol. 2).

13 pages (vol. 1); 15 pages (vol. 2).

Title page: Quatre / CAPRICES / COMPOSÉES / pour le Piano / et dediées à Monsieur / F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / par / J.P.E. HARTMANN. Oeuvre 18 Cah. I [Cah 2 ... ET DÉDIÉES à Monsieur Henri Marschner] / Leipzig chez Fr. Hofmeister. / Paris, chez S. Richault.

Pl. no.2161 (vol. 1) 2225 (vol. 2).

In two volumes, each comprising four caprices and numbered "1-4" and "1-4", respectively.

Score, print, later edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Later edition, Excerpt]
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1878.

9 pages (vol. 1); 13 pages (vol. 2).

Title page: MODERNE / OG / KLASSISK / PIANOFORTEMUSIK / [...] No 65. Hartmann, J.P.E. Capricer. Op. 18. Hefte 1-2. KJÖBENHAVN. / Paa Wilhelm Hansens Forlag.

Pl. no.3555 (Vol. 1) 3556 (Vol. 2).

Each of the two volumes contains three caprices, sequentially numbered "1-6" omitting No. 2 and No. 4 of the Hofmeister edition.

Score, print, later edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Later edition, Excerpt]
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1886.

9 pages (vol.1); 13 pages (vol.2).

Title page: SEX / CAPRICER / for / PIANO / componerede af / J.P.E. HARTMANN. / Uddrag af Op. 18. Hefte 1. 2. / Ny af Componisten revideret Udgave. / KJÖBENHAVN. / Wilhelm Hansens Forlag og Eiendom.

Pl. no.3555 (vol. 1) 3556 (vol. 2).

Contents, articulation and dynamics identical with the 1878 edition.

Letters:

14 May 1837, Hannover   from Heinrich Marschner to J.P.E. Hartmann, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 3392 4º no. 215. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 76)
11 May 1838, Hannover   from Heinrich Marschner to J.P.E. Hartmann, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 3392 4º no. 216. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 83)
10 Jan. 1841, Leipzig   from Friedrich Hofmeister to J.P.E Hartmann, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 3392 4º no. 142x. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 110)
25 Oct. 1848   from J.P.E. Hartmann to C.C. Lose & Delbanco, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NBD VII no. 269. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 364)

Robert Schumann: 'Phantasien, Capricen etc. f. Pianoforte'. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 6/47, 13 June 1837, p. 190. (NZfM 190)

Richard Hove: J.P.E. Hartmann. Copenhagen 1934, p. 39.

Kai Aage Bruun: Dansk musiks historie fra Holberg-tiden til Carl Nielsen. Copenhagen 1969: vol.2, p. 76.

Lothar Brix: Die Klaviermusik von Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann. Ein Beitrag zur musikalischen Romantik in Skandinavien. Göttingen 1971, pp. 48-59.

Nils Schiørring: Musikkens historie i Danmark. Copenhagen 1978: vol.2: 1750-1870, p. 254.

Inger Sørensen: Hartmann - et dansk komponistdynasti. Copenhagen 1999, pp. 159, 179-180.

Niels Krabbe: 'Udbredelsen af J.P.E. Hartmanns klavermusik'. Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger, 51, 2012, pp. 413-443.


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