Score, autograph, fair copy
[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score, Fair copy, Complete]
10 pages; 35 x 26 cm.
2 bifolios and 1 smaller folio (30.5 x 24.5 cm) bound together in brown leather half binding with marbled sides. On front cover a handwritten label inscribed: "J.P.E. Hartmann / Børnestykker / (Novellette ... Op. 55)". Written in brown ink and pencil. Paper: 16 staves (bifolios) and 18 staves (folio). Paginated in pencil skipping the third page, containing sketches in pencil only. Title above the first stave on p. 1: "Børnestykker." Added in pencil in Hartmann's hand: "Lykønskning til en Fødselsdag." Written in the following order: I Allegretto (end-dated: "15/12 52."); II Allegro moderato (end-dated: "23/12 52."); IV Allegro molto vivace, "Tagfat" added in pencil (end-dated: "24/5 53"); III Mazurka (end-dated: "27/8 53."); V Andantino, "Morgenbøn" added in pencil (end-dated "30/5 55"); VI "Eventyr" added in pencil (end-dated "6/6 55.").
Score, print, first edition
[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, First edition, Complete]
C.C. Lose & Delbanco, Copenhagen December 1855.
15 pages.
Title page: Novelette / i / sex Smaastykker for Pianoforte / AF / J.P.E. HARTMANN / sat i Text af / H.C. Andersen / Op. 55. Pr. 1 Rdlr. / 20 Ngr. / Kjöbenhavn, / forlagt af C.C. Lose & Delbanco / Bog- og Musikhandlere.
Pl. no.2427.
The six stanzas by H.C. Andersen are printed on page 3. Later impressions from the same plates: C.C. Lose, c. 1865; C.C. Loses Bog- og Musikhandel (F. Borchorst), c. 1875; Wilhelm Hansens Musik-Forlag (various impressions after 1880). All of them including H.C. Andersen's stanzas on a separate page before the music.
Score, print, German edition
[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Later edition, Complete]
Carl Simon, Berlin Sept. 1877.
13 pages.
Title page: Novelletten / sechs kleine Stücke / für das / PIANOFORTE / componirt von / J.P.E. HARTMANN. / OP. 55 Pr. 2 MK. [...] / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / CARL SIMON, Musikverlag, BERLIN. / S.W. Markgrafenstr. 101.
Pl. no.C.S. 443.
Without H.C. Andersen's stanzas. No. 1, Allegretto, also as a separate edition. The edition was reprinted in July 1878 and November 1889.
Score, print, later edition
[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Later edition, Complete]
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1896.
40 pages.
Title page: J.P.E. Hartmann / Klaverstykker / med Mottoer / af / H. C. Andersen. / Kjøbenhavn & Leipzig. / Wilhelm Hansen, Musik-Forlag.
Pl. no.11905.
Contains all of Hartmann's published piano compositions having introductory poems by H.C. Andersen and including a vignette by Viggo Jastrau: on the title page: "Seks Karakterstykker, Opus 50 [HartW 89]; Novelette Opus 55 (pp. 3-15); Andantino quasi Andante ("Hun sidder og spiller Klaver") [HartW 93]; and "Claveerstykker", Nos. 1-2 [HartW 104-105].
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