Caroline Hartmann

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Caroline Hartmann (born October 27, 1807 in Münster near Colmar ; † July 30, 1834 there ) was a German pianist and student of Frédéric Chopin .

Life

She was the only daughter of the music-loving textile manufacturer Jakob (Jacques) Hartmann (1774–1839) in Munster near Colmar from his first marriage to Caroline Hartmann, nee. Schuch (1788–1807), who died shortly after the child was born. In Munster he owned “a beautiful English garden with a temple of the Muses dedicated to the first composers.” From an early age she showed extraordinary aptitudes for music, combined with an extremely fine ear. Although she received little lessons, she was an excellent pianist from a young age. This was confirmed by numerous traveling artists such as Louis Spohr , Heinrich Joseph Baermann , Johann Peter Pixis and Henri Herz . Spohr, who met her in March 1816, writes that at that time she was already leading her father's amateur orchestra, in which he played the bassoon himself and his sister and daughter piano:

“The latter, a child of eight years, is the highlight of this amateur orchestra. She already plays very difficult compositions with admirable skill and accuracy. Even more like this, I was surprised by her fine musical ear, with which she (away from the piano) recognizes the intervals of the most intricate and full-bodied, dissonant chords that are struck on her, and names the tones they consist of in their order. This child will certainly one day, if well managed, become an excellent artist. "

In 1830, Henri Herz dedicated his Variations brillantes sur la dernière valse de CM de Weber op. 51 to her. One of her admirers was the composer Friedrich Burgmüller , then living in Mulhouse in Alsace , who dedicated his Variations brillantes op. 10 to her in 1833/34 .

In the late summer of 1833 she took her father on a trip to Paris , where she became a student of Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin. The latter dedicated the first edition of his Rondeau in E flat major op. 16 to her, which appeared in print in March / April 1834.

Due to the great effort with which she carried out her studies, she fell ill with a fatal "breast disease" in early 1834, which forced her to return to Münster. Her early death was widely lamented in the music press of the time as a great loss for the music world.

literature

  • Georg Heinrich Heylandt, The wedding celebration of Mr. Jakob Hartmann, ... and the maid Caroline Schuch , Colmar 1804
  • Georg Heinrich Heylandt, funeral speech, spoken on November 12, 1807, at the funeral of Mrs. Henriette Caroline Hartmann, born Schuch, and former wife of Mr. Jacques Hartmann , Colmar 1807
  • Georg Heinrich Heylandt, eulogy at the funeral of Margaretha Catharina Carolina Hartmann, b. Eccard and former wife of Mr. Jacques Hartmann, factory owners in Muenster, spoke on January 25th 1822 , Colmar 1822
  • CB, Nekrolog , in: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , vol. 36, no. 38 of September 17, 1834, col. 634f. ( Digitized version )
  • New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 12 (1834), First Part, Weimar 1836, pp. 546f. ( Digitized version )
  • Krystyna Kobylańska , Frédéric Chopin. Thematic-bibliographical catalog raisonné , Munich 1979

Individual evidence

  1. Date of birth according to documents from the Archives municipales in Münster ("registre d'état civil des naissances de la ville de Munster de l'année 1807")
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Aufschlager, The Alsace. New historical-topographical description of the two Rhine departments , second part, Strasbourg 1825, p. 127 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Louis Spohr, Memoirs , Volume 1, Kassel and Göttingen 1860, pp. 245f. ( Digitized version )
  4. See Klaus Martin Kopitz , Der Düsseldorfer Composer Norbert Burgmüller , Kleve 1998, p. 352, note 471

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