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J.P.E. Hartmann

Sechs Tonstücke in Liederform

Seks Tonestykker i Sangform

Six Pieces in Song Form

Opus 37
HartW 76
JPEW III/1 no. 11
DF 26

Composition: 22 Oct. 1842.

It was at the instigation of the German music publisher Julius Schuberth in Hamburg that Hartmann composed this collection. In January 1843 Schuberth received the requested volume, and he was so delighted that he immediately asked for a second volume. This was never to be. Hartmann chose to call his piano pieces "Tonstücke in Liederform" instead of "Lieder ohne Worte" as Schuberth had proposed, probably because he did not want them to be associated with Mendelssohn's famous collections, although they are in the same style. Hartmann might have been inspired to write these pieces when, during his visit to Leipzig in 1839, he was invited to one of Mendelssohn's private Sunday morning matinées, at which he was asked to play the piano.

Instrumentation: pf.pianoforte (piano)

Music

Sources

Score, autograph, fair copy

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

18 pages; 27 x 38.5 cm.

Written in brown ink. Paper: 12 staves. Above the first stave: "I:P:E: Hartmann / Op: 37". Few corrections and cancellations. The numbering of the individual pieces was added after the manuscript had been finished; this explains the non-numerical order: Nos. 1, 2, 5, 3, 6, 4. On p. 9 No. 5 has been cancelled and replaced by another version on pp. 10-11. At the end of No. 4 on p. 17 dated: "22/10 42."

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CII, 7 Hartmanns Samling 250 (Kapsel Til Anskariusfesten - Undine).

Score, print, first edition

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

Schubert & Co., Hamburg & Leipzig Aug. 1843.

17 pages.

Title page: SECHS TONSTÜCKE / in / Liederform / für / PIANO-FORTE / componirt / von / J.P.E. Hartmann. / Ehren-Mitglied des Norddeutschen Musikvereins in Hamburg / Ritter von Dannebrog / Op. 37 1^stes Heft. / Eigenthum der Verleger. / Schuberth & Comp: Hamburg & Leipzig / St. Petersburg à l'Odéon Kopenhagen Lose & Olsen. / Eingetragen ins Vereinsarchiv / Von demselben Componisten erschienen Op. 34 vom Norddeutschen Musikverein / mit dem 2^ten Preise gekrönte Sonate f Pfte, Op 31. 8 Skizzen für Pianoforte. / 593

Pl. no.593.

Score, print, later edition

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

Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1882.

17 pages.

Title page: SEX / Tonestykker i Sangform / (Sechs Tonstücke in Liederform.) / for / PIANO / componerede af / J.P.E. HARTMANN / Op. 37. / Ny af Componisten revideret Udgave. / KJÖBENHAVN / Wilhelm Hansen^s Forlag og Eiendom.

Pl. no.1882.

Dynamics and articulation have been changed in this edition, revised by the composer. In No. 3 there are also differences in the actual musical texture. Thus, this revised version is 34 bars shorter than the autograph and the first edition. In No. 6 there are also differences between the two versions.

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Last changed 2022-12-02 by MerMEId

22 Feb. 1843, Hamburg	from Julius Schuberth to J.P.E. Hartmann, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 3392 4º no. 319. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 157)
2 Aug. 1843, Hamburg	from Schuberth & Co. to J.P.E. Hartmann, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 3392 4º No. 320. (Breve 1780-1900 no. 169)

HartW

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

Sechs Tonstücke in Liederform

Seks Tonestykker i Sangform

Six Pieces in Song Form

Music

No. 1.

No. 2.

No. 3.

No. 4.