August Wilhelm Hartmann (6 November 1775 – 15 November 1850) was a

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composer and violinist at the Royal Chapel in Copenhagen. He was a second generation of composers in the Hartmann musical family. Trained as a musician by his father, composer

Johann Hartmann Johann Ernst Hartmann (His real name was Johann Hartmann, but due to a confusion with his elder son, who was also a composer, he became known by posterity as Johann Ernst Hartmann; 24 December 1726, Głogów, Bohemian Crown – 21 October 1 ...

(1726-1793) and by composer

Claus Schall Claus Nielsen Schall (28 April 1757 – 10 August 1835) was a Danish violinist and composer. Notable works *Bønderne og herrerne på lystgården (ballet 1778) *Kjærlighedens og Mistankens Magt (ballet 1780) *Savoyardinderne (ballet 1781) ...

(1757-1835), he has written various pieces for the piano. Reference can be made among others to a C minor piano sonata (ca. 1814-1815) and to three sets of themes and variations for piano published by Lose in 1815. He was himself the father of composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900). August Wilhelm Hartmann was for some time also organist at the Garrison church in Copenhagen, but had to retire in 1824 because of an increasing deafness, whereupon his son became his successor. August Wilhelm Hartmann’s wife Christiane Petrea Friderica Wittendorf (1778-1848) was herself daughter and granddaughter of organists. She became the governess of later King

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, and her son Johan Peter Emilius thus became playmate of the later king who was only two years younger than him. When August Wilhelm Hartmann died on 15 November 1850, the poet

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...

wrote a poetry for his funeral, set in music by Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann. The latter also wrote the motet ''Quando'' ''Corpus'' ''Morietur'' to the memory of his father. Hans Christian Andersen has described August Wilhelm Hartmann and his wife in his tale «''The'' ''old'' ''tombstone''». The painter

Frederik Vermehren Johan Frederik (Frits) Nikolai Vermehren, also known as Frederik Vermehren (12 May 1823 – 10 January 1910), a genre and portrait painter in the realist style. His artistic career took place during the period of Danish art known as the Golden ...

has left portraits of August Wilhelm and his wife.

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*''Soerensen, Inger: Hartmann, Et Dansk Komponistdynasti, Koebenhavn, 1999'' *Soerensen, Inger: J.P.E. Hartmann og Hans Kreds. En komponistfamilies breve 1780-1900, bd 1-4 Koebenhavn 1999-2002 Danish composers Male composers Hartmann family 1775 births 1850 deaths {{Denmark-composer-stub

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