Emma Hartmann
{{Short description|Danish composer (1807–1851)}}{{Infobox person
| name = Amalia Hartmann
| image = Emma Hartmann.png
| other_names = Frederik H. Palmer
| birth_name = Amalia Emma Sophie Zinn
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1807|08|22}}
| birth_place = Copenhagen, Denmark
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1851|03|06|1807|08|22}}
| resting_place = Garrison Cemetery, Copenhagen
| spouse = Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (m. 1829)
| children = Emil Hartmann
Carl Hartmann
| relatives = Johann Ludvig Zinn (Grandfather)
}}
Amalia Emma Sophie Hartmann née Zinn (22 August 1807 – 6 March 1851) was a Danish composer who composed under the pseudonym Frederik H. Palmer. She was married to the composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805–1900). They lived on the second floor of the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3 in Copenhagen.{{cite web|url= https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/177/|title=Emma Hartmann (1807–1851)|website=Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon|access-date=January 1, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/7/0115.html|title=Hartmann, Johan Peter Emilius, 1805–1900|website=Dansk biografisk Lexikon|access-date=January 1, 2020}}
Early life
File:Emma Hartmann, f. Zinn.jpg
Emma Zinn was born into a wealthy merchant family in Copenhagen. She was the daughter of Johann Friederich Zinn (1779–1838) and Eva Sophie Juliane Oldeland (1779–1812). Her father had inherited the family's trading house after the death of his father Johann Ludvig Zinn in 1802, initially in a partnership with his brother Carl Ludvig Zinn who died in 1808. Emma grew up in the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3 and studied singing and piano with composer Andreas Peter Berggreen (1801–1880).{{cite web|url= http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Handel_og_industri/Grosserer/J.L._Zinn|title=J.L. Zinn|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, Gyldendal|author=Jens Vestberg|date=18 July 2011|access-date=January 1, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/2/0109.html|title=Berggreen, Andreas Peter, 1801-80|website=Dansk biografisk Lexikon|access-date=January 1, 2020}}
Compositions
File:Forsiden til femte bind af Emma Hartmanns (Frederik Palmers) romancer, 1853.jpg
Her first published composition was music for a Student Association dance in February 1841. Five pamphlets with a total of 22 Romances and Songs were later published with lyrics by prominent names including Christian Winther, Frederik Paludan-Müller and Swedish Johan Ludvig Runeberg. The first pamphlet was published in 1848 by Horneman & Erslev but the last two were published posthumously.{{cite web|url=http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/samling/ma/fokus/emma.html|title=Emma Hartmann 200 år|author=Jensen, Anne Ørbæk|year=2003|publisher=Det Kongelige Bibliotek|access-date=20 December 2010|language=Danish}} The title lead featured both her real name and her pseudonym when her collected romances and songs were published in 1892.{{cite news|url=http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/samling/ma/fokus/emma.html|title=Emma Hartmann 200 år|newspaper=www.kb.dk|language=Danish|publisher=Royal Danish Library|access-date=1 March 2018}}
Her pseudonym was revealed in 1869 when the Manual of anonymity and pseudonyms in Danish literature was published.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA211|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|isbn=9780393034875|access-date=4 October 2010}}
A collection of her piano pieces was published privately by her youngest son Frederik (Fritz) Hartmann in 1908. A new issue was published by DCM in 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/dcm/udgivelser/emma_hartmann/index.htmll|title=Emma Hartmann: Klaverstykker|author=Jensen, Anne Ørbæk|year=2003|publisher=Det Kongelige Bibliotek|access-date=21 March 2018|language=Danish}}
Personal life
File:Kvæsthusgade 3 (Copenhagen).jpg at Kvæsthusgade 3 in Copenhagen]]
Emma Zinn married J.P.E. Hartmann in 1829. He then worked as organist at the Garrison Church, a position he had taken over after his father. She gave birth to 10 children of which four died as infants. She was interested in literature, art and theatre. H.C. Andersen wrote entertainingly and movingly on her in his memoirs "Mit Livs Eventyr" and Clara Schumann in "Ehetagebuecher". She died just 43 years old on 6 March 1851 and was interred in the Garrison Cemetery in Copenhagen. Her husband outlived her by almost fifty years and remarried in 1855.
Her son Emil Hartmann was also a composer. Her daughter Emma Sophie married Danish composer Niels W. Gade and her daughter Clara married pianist and composer August Winding.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/2557.html#about|title=Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890); DNK|access-date=20 December 2010}} Her son Carl Hartmann was a sculptor.
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Works
- Viennese waltz, 1841
- Galopade, 1841
- Romances and songs 1-V, 1849-53 (11 songs)
- Collected Romances and Songs, 1892 (22 songs)
- Collected piano works
- Several unpublished songs
References
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Category:19th-century Danish classical composers
Category:Danish women classical composers
Category:Composers from Copenhagen