Johann Ernst Hartmann (1726-1793) - Symphony No.1 (1770)
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Composer: Johann Ernst Hartmann (1726-1793)
Work: Symphony No.1 in D (1770)
Performers: Concerto Copenhagen; Lars UIrik Mortensen (harpsichord & musical direction)
Painting: Carl Marcus Tuscher (1705-1751) - The Shudi Family Group (1742)
Further info: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/Johann-Ernst-Hartmann-1726-1793-Symphonien-Nr-1-4/hnum/3493121
Listen free: https://open.spotify.com/album/1I43WiLQhvfdzaMVaQvih1
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Johann Ernst [Joseph] Hartmann
(Gross Glogau, [now in Poland], 24 December 1726 - Copenhagen, 21 October 1793)
Composer and violinist. It is assumed that he had his musical training in the Jesuit college in Gross Glogau. In 1754 he joined the orchestra of the Prince-Bishop of Breslau, which was disbanded in 1757. In 1761 he was at the Rudolstadt court, but in the same year moved to the ducal court at Plön in Holstein, where he was made Konzertmeister. In October 1761 this duchy passed to the Danish crown, and the Plön band was called to Copenhagen to play in the theatre orchestra for Sarti’s Italian opera in 1762-4. Hartmann returned to Plön in summer 1763, when he married, and again in 1764 when Sarti left Denmark, but in 1766 he was taken to Copenhagen again, settling there permanently as a member of the royal chapel. The conductorship of the orchestra being vacant and the ‘virtuoso extraordinary’ J.H. Freithoff sick, Hartmann became in effect the leader and acting conductor. He succeeded Freithoff as first court violinist in 1767 and was appointed music director in 1768. Gerber spoke highly of him; he had many pupils, including King Christian VII, and he left a manuscript Violin-Schule dated 1777 (in DK-Kk). Two of his sons were musicians: Johann Ernst (1770-1844), who was organist and choirmaster of Roskilde Cathedral from 1807, and August Wilhelm, father of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann. Hartmann’s duties included composing, but most of his music was lost in a fire that destroyed Christiansborg Palace in 1794. Besides two published works, the Simphonie périodique no.7 in D (Amsterdam, 1770) and Air favori varié pour le clavecin ou harpe avec un violon obligé (Copenhagen, 1792), several manuscripts survive: VI sonates à deux violons et basse op.1; a violin concerto (dated at Fredensborg 1780, written in collaboration with his pupil, the violinist Claus Schall); two Passion cantatas, Forløserens død, opstandelse og himmelfart and Jesu dødsangst i urtegaarden; and Høytidssange (1785), a cantata in honour of the crown prince, later King Frederik VI. #ClassicalMusic