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Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Person · male · Germany · Munich · born 1905 · died 1963 · recording since 1989
German composer (1905-1963)
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Debut release: 8 Symphonien • Gesangs-Szene
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Biography
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Biography
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century.
Life
Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts. He was much affected in his early political development by the events of the unsuccessful Workers’ Revolution in Bavaria that followed the collapse of the German empire at the end of World War I (see Bavarian Soviet Republic). He remained an idealistic socialist for the rest of his life.
At the Munich Academy in the 1920s, Hartmann studied with Joseph Haas, a pupil of Max Reger, and later received intellectual stimulus and encouragement from the conductor Hermann Scherchen, an ally of the Schoenberg school, with whom he had a nearly lifelong mentor-protégé relationship. He voluntarily withdrew completely from musical life in Germany during the Nazi era, while remaining in Germany, and refused to allow his works to be played there. An early symphonic poem, Miserae (1933–1934, first performed in Prague, 1935) was condemned by the Nazi regime but his work continued to be performed, and his fame grew, abroad. A number of Hartmann's compositions show the profound effect of the political climate. His Miserae (1933–34) was dedicated to his 'friends...who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you (Dachau, 1933–34)', referring to Dachau Concentration Camp, and was condemned by the Nazis. His piano sonata 27 April 1945 portrays 20,000 prisoners from Dachau whom Hartmann witnessed being led away from Allied forces at the end of the war.
During World War II, though already an experienced composer, Hartmann submitted to a course of private tuition in Vienna by Schoenberg’s pupil Anton Webern (with whom he often disagreed on a personal and political level). Although stylistically their music had little in common, he clearly felt that he needed, and benefited from, Webern's acute perfectionism.
After the fall of Adolf Hitler, Hartmann was one of the few prominent surviving anti-fascists in Bavaria whom the postwar Allied administration could appoint to a position of responsibility. In 1945, he became a dramaturge at the Bavarian State Opera and there, as one of the few internationally recognized figures who had survived untainted by any collaboration with the Nazi regime, he became a vital figure in the rebuilding of (West) German musical life. Perhaps his most notable achievement was the Musica Viva concert series, which he founded and ran for the rest of his life in Munich. Beginning in November 1945, the concerts reintroduced the German public to 20th-century repertoire, which had been banned since 1933 under National Socialist aesthetic policy. Hartmann also provided a platform for the music of young composers in the late 1940s and early 1950s, helping to establish such figures as Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Nono, Luigi Dallapiccola, Carl Orff, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and many others. Hartmann also involved sculptors and artists such as Jean Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Joan Miró in exhibitions at Musica Viva.
He was accorded numerous honours after the war, including the Musikpreis of the city of Munich in March 1949. This was followed by the Kunstpreis of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (1950), the Arnold Schönberg Medal of the IGNM (1954), the Große Kunstpreis of the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (1957), as well as the Ludwig Spohr Award of the city of Braunschweig, the Schwabing Kunstpreis (1961) and the Bavarian Medal of Merit (1959). Hartmann became a member of the Academy of Arts in Munich (1952) and Berlin (1955) and received an honorary doctorate from Spokane Conservatory, Washington (1962). His socialist sympathies did not extend to the Soviet Union's variety of communism, and in the 1950s, he refused an offer to move to East Germany.
Hartmann continued to base his activities in Munich for the remainder of his life, and his administrative duties came to absorb much of his time and energy. This reduced his time for composition, and his last years were dogged by serious illness. In 1963, he died of stomach cancer at the age of 58, leaving his last work – an extended symphonic Gesangsszene for voice and orchestra on words from Jean Giraudoux’s apocalyptic drama Sodom and Gomorrah – unfinished.
Output and style
Hartmann completed a number of works, most notably eight symphonies. The first of these, and perhaps emblematic of the difficult genesis of many of his works, is Symphony No. 1, Essay for a Requiem (Versuch eines Requiems). It began in 1936 as a cantata for alto solo and orchestra loosely based on a few poems by Walt Whitman. It soon became known as Our Life: Symphonic Fragment (Unser Leben: Symphonisches Fragment) and was intended as a comment on the generally miserable conditions for artists and liberal-minded people under the early Nazi regime. After the defeat of the Third Reich in World War II, the regime's real victims had become clear, and the cantata's title was changed to Symphonic Fragment: Attempt at a Requiem to honor the millions killed in the Holocaust. Hartmann revised the work in 1954–55 as his Symphony No. 1, and published it in 1956. As this example indicates, he was a highly self-critical composer and many of his works went through successive stages of revision. He also suppressed most of his substantial orchestral works of the late 1930s and the war years, either allowing them to remain unpublished or, in several cases, reworking them – or portions of them – into the series of numbered symphonies that he produced in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Perhaps the most frequently performed of his symphonies are No. 4, for strings, and No. 6; probably his most widely known work, through performances and recordings, is his Concerto funebre for violin and strings, composed at the beginning of World War II and making use of a Hussite chorale and a Russian revolutionary song of 1905.
Hartmann attempted a synthesis of many different idioms, including musical expressionism and jazz stylization, into organic symphonic forms in the tradition of Bruckner and Mahler. His early works are both satirical and politically engaged. But he admired the polyphonic mastery of J.S. Bach, the profound expressive irony of Mahler, and the neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith. In the 1930s he developed close ties with Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in Hungary, and this is reflected in his music to some extent. In the 1940s, he began to take an interest in Schoenbergian twelve-tone technique; though he studied with Webern his own idiom was closer to Alban Berg. In the 1950s, Hartmann started to explore the metrical techniques pioneered by Boris Blacher and Elliott Carter. Among his most-used forms are three-part adagio slow movements, fugues, variations and toccatas.
Reputation and legacy
Significantly, no major West German conductor championed his music following his death: Scherchen, his most noted advocate, died in 1966. Some have suggested that this accelerated the disappearance of Hartmann's music from public view in the years following his death. Conductors who regularly performed Hartmann's music include Rafael Kubelik and Ferdinand Leitner, who recorded the third and sixth symphonies. More recent champions of works by Hartmann include Ingo Metzmacher and Mariss Jansons.
Hans Werner Henze said of Hartmann's music:
Symphonic architecture was essential for him... as a suitable medium for reflecting the world as he experienced and understood it – as an agonizingly dramatic battle, as contradiction and conflict – in order to be able to achieve self-realization in its dialectic and to portray himself as a man among men, a man of this world, and not out of this world.
The English composer John McCabe wrote his Variations on a Theme of Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1964) in tribute. It uses the opening of Hartmann's Fourth Symphony as its theme. Henze made a version of Hartmann's Piano Sonata No. 2 for full orchestra.
Operas
Wachsfigurenkabinett, five short operas (1929–30; three not completed), libretti by Erich Bormann
Das Leben und Sterben des heiligen Teufels
Der Mann, der vom Tode auferstand (unfinished; completed by Günter Bialas and Hans Werner Henze)
Chaplin-Ford-Trott, 'scenic jazz cantata' (unfinished; completed by Wilfried Hiller)
Fürwahr? (unfinished; completed by Henze)
Die Witwe von Ephesus
Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend (1934–35; revised 1956–57 as Simplicius Simplicissimus), libretto by Hermann Scherchen, Wolfgang Petzer and Hartmann after Jakob von Grimmelhausen
Symphonic works
(i) Up to 1945 – mostly later suppressed
Miserae, Symphonic Poem (1933–34)
Symphony L'Oeuvre (1937–38; material re-used in Symphony No. 6)
Symphonic Concerto for string orchestra and soprano (1938; later partly used in Symphony No. 4)
Sinfonia Tragica (1940, rev. 1943; first movement re-used in Symphony No. 3)
Sinfoniae Dramaticae (1941–43), consisting of:
Overture China kampft (1942, rev. 1962 as Symphonische Ouvertüre)
Symphonische Hymnen (1941–43)
Symphonic Suite Vita Nova for reciter and orchestra (1941–42, unfinished)
Adagio for large orchestra (1940–44, revised as Symphony No. 2)
Symphony Klagegesang (1944; portions re-used in Symphony No. 3)
(ii) After 1945
Symphony No. 1, Versuch eines Requiems for alto and orchestra (1955) – revised version of Symphonisches Fragment (on texts by Walt Whitman)
Symphony No. 2 (1946) – revised version of Adagio
Symphony No. 3 (1948–49) – adapted from portions of Symphony Klagegesang and Sinfonia Tragica
Symphony No. 4 for string orchestra (1947–48) – adapted from Symphonic Concerto for strings
Symphony No. 5, Symphonie concertante (1950) – adapted from Concerto for wind and double basses
Symphony No. 6 (1951–53) – adapted from Symphony L'Oeuvre
Symphony No. 7 (1957–58)
Symphony No. 8 (1960–62)
Concertos
Lied for trumpet and wind instruments (1932)
Concerto for wind instruments and solo trumpet (1933); recomposed as Concerto for wind instruments and double basses (1948–49), whence Symphony No.5
Cello Concerto (1933, lost, probably unfinished)
Symphonie-Divertissement for bassoon, tenor trombone, double bass and chamber orchestra (c. 1934, unfinished)
Kammerkonzert for clarinet, string quartet and string orchestra (1930–35)
Concerto funebre for violin and string orchestra (1939, rev. 1959) (originally entitled Musik der Trauer)
Concerto for piano, wind instruments and percussion (1953)
Concerto for viola, piano, wind instruments and percussion (1954–56)
Vocal works
Cantata (1929) for 6-part a cappella choir on texts by Johannes R. Becher and Karl Marx
Profane Messe (1929) for a cappella chorus on a text by Max See
Kantate for soprano and orchestra on texts by Walt Whitman (1936); later retitled Lamento and in 1938 revised as Symphonisches Fragment, whence Symphony No.1
Friede Anno '48 (1936–37) for soprano solo, mixed chorus and piano; revised 1955 as Lamento for soprano and piano
Gesangsszene (1962–63) for baritone and orchestra on a text from Sodom and Gomorrah by Jean Giraudoux
Chamber and instrumental
2 Kleine Suiten for piano (c. 1924–6)
2 Sonatas for unaccompanied violin (1927)
2 Suites for Unaccompanied violin (1927)
Jazz Toccata and Fugue for piano (1927–28)
Tanzsuite for clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet and trombone (1931)
Kleines Konzert for string quartet and percussion (1932)
Burleske Musik for wind instruments, percussion and piano (1931)
Sonatina for piano (1931)
Toccata variata for wind instruments, piano and percussion (1931–32)
Piano Sonata No.1 (1932)
String Quartet No.1, Carillon (1933)
Piano Sonata No.2, 27.IV.45 (1945)
String Quartet No.2 (1945–46)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 26 | 87.5th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 24 | 88.5th |
| Studio albums | 22 | 97th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 28 | 96.4th |
| Recording span (years) | -26 | 7.7th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (24 release groups · 22 studio albums)
Albums · 22
1989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 3:42:59
Disc 111. Symphonie: I. Introduktion: Elend (Allegro)3:0221. Symphonie: II. Frühling (Allegro Con Brio - Largo)4:5831. Symphonie: III. Thema Mit 4 Variationen (Langsam)7:5141. Symphonie: IV. Tränen (Langsam)8:1551. Symphonie: V. Epilog: Bitte (Andante)3:2663. Symphonie Für Großes Orchester: I. Largo Ma Non Troppo - Allegro Con Fuoco (Virtuose Fuge)18:0273. Symphonie Für Großes Orchester: II. Adagio (Mit Bewegtem Ausdruck)17:03Disc 21Adagio (2. Symphonie) Für Großes Orchester14:5424. Symphonie: I. Lento Assai - Con Passione14:3234. Symphonie: II. Allegro Di Molto, Risoluto9:4044. Symphonie: III. Adagio Appassionato7:295Symphonie Concertante (5. Symphonie): I. Toccata (Lebhaft)5:086Symphonie Concertante (5. Symphonie): II. Melodie (Langsam)4:237Symphonie Concertante (5. Symphonie): III. Scherzo (Sehr Lebhaft)2:468Symphonie Concertante (5. Symphonie): IV. Rondo (Lustig - Sehr Lebhaft)3:42Disc 316. Symphonie Für Großes Orchester: I. Adagio - Appassionato (Allegro Moderato)11:2326. Symphonie Für Großes Orchester: II. Toccata Variata - Presto - Allegro Assai (Fuge 1 - 3)11:4837. Symphonie Für Großes Orchester: I. Introduktion Und Ricercare9:3947. Symphonie Für Großes Orchester: II. Adagio Mesto Cantando E Tranquillo - Finale: Scherzoso Virtuoso17:02Disc 418. Symphonie Für Großes Orchester: I. Cantilene - Lento Assai, Con Passione13:4828. Symphonie Für Großes Orchester: II. Dithyrambe: Scherzo - Fuga9:573Gesangs-Szene - Zu Worten Aus "Sodom Und Gomorrha" Von Jean Giraudoux - Für Bariton Und Orchester24:111991 · studio album
Karl Heinz Wahren / Karl Amadeus Hartmann
1993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:05:56
1Bye-Bye Bayreuth: Debussy's erwartungsvolle Anreise2:332Bye-Bye Bayreuth: Zwiegespräch am Grabe Wagners6:063Bye-Bye Bayreuth: Flucht und glückliche Rückkehr nach Paris3:484Toccata appassionata10:035Paradiesvogel4:426Tango-Rag4:387Kleine Suite I5:558Klassizistische Sonatine: Allegro con moto3:369Klassizistische Sonatine: Andante cantabile3:3610Klassizistische Sonatine: Rondo con fuoco2:5111Romantische Rhapsodie9:5612Sonatine8:121993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 50:26
1String Quartet no. 1 ("Carillon"): I. Langsam8:212String Quartet no. 1 ("Carillon"): II. (con sordino)8:013String Quartet no. 1 ("Carillon"): III.6:384String Quartet no. 2: I. Langsam - äußerst lebhaft und sehr energisch9:545String Quartet no. 2: II. Andantino10:446String Quartet no. 2: III. Presto6:48Mahler: Symphony 9 / Hartmann: Adagio
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:40:05
Disc 11Symphony 9: I. Andante comodo28:552Symphony 9: II. Im tempo eines gemächlichen ländlers. Etwas täppisch und sehr derb16:313Symphony 9: III. Rondo-Burleske. Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig13:28Disc 21Symphony 9: IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend25:512Adagio (Symphony no. 2)15:20Symphonies no. 1 & no. 6 / Miserae
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:07:46
1Symphony no. 1: I. Introduktion. Elend3:222Symphony no. 1: II. Frühling4:423Symphony no. 1: III. Thema mit vier Variationen: Thema3:034Symphony no. 1: III. Thema mit vier Variationen: Var. 11:115Symphony no. 1: III. Thema mit vier Variationen: Var. 20:566Symphony no. 1: III. Thema mit vier Variationen: Var. 31:357Symphony no. 1: III. Thema mit vier Variationen: Var. 42:028Symphony no. 1: IV. Tränen8:459Symphony no. 1: V. Epilog. Bitte3:2810Symphony no. 6: I. Adagio13:5511Symphony no. 6: II. Toccata variata11:3212Miserae: Largo - Allegro agitato e vivace13:152000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:18:01
1Concerto funebre: Introduktion (Largo)1:362Concerto funebre: Adagio7:443Concerto funebre: Allegro di molto8:194Concerto funebre: Choral (Langsamer Marsch)4:0254. Sinfonie: Lento assai — con passione15:3864. Sinfonie: Allegro di molto, risoluto8:3274. Sinfonie: Adagio appassionato7:508Kammerkonzert: Introduktion8:179Kammerkonzert: Tanz — Variation 11:2010Kammerkonzert: Tanz — Variation 20:3911Kammerkonzert: Tanz — Variation 32:2412Kammerkonzert: Tanz — Variation 41:4913Kammerkonzert: Tanz — Variation 50:3414Kammerkonzert: Tanz — Variation 60:3715Kammerkonzert: Fantasie8:402001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:14:38
1Leben und Sterben des heiligen Teufels17:502Der Mann, der vom Tode auferstand12:033Chaplin-Ford-Trott21:504Fürwahr ...?!11:525Die Witwe von Ephesus11:03Karl Amadeus Hartmann / Béla Bartók
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 42:49
1Streichquartett Nr. 1 – Carillon: Langsam – Sehr Lebhaft8:182Streichquartett Nr. 1 – Carillon: Con Sordino7:013Streichquartett Nr. 1 – Carillon: Con Tutta Forza5:454Streichquartett Nr. 4: Allegro5:435Streichquartett Nr. 4: Prestissimo, Con Sordino2:496Streichquartett Nr. 4: Non Troppo Lento5:207Streichquartett Nr. 4: Allegretto Pizzicato2:418Streichquartett Nr. 4: Allegro Molto5:12Bruckner: Symphony no. 6; Hartmann: Symphony no. 6
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:19:56
1Bruckner: Symphony no. 6 in A major, WAB 106 - I. Majestoso15:502Bruckner: Symphony no. 6 in A major, WAB 106 - II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich15:323Bruckner: Symphony no. 6 in A major, WAB 106 - III. Scherzo. Nicht schnell9:194Bruckner: Symphony no. 6 in A major, WAB 106 - IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell15:125Hartmann: Symphony no. 6 - I. Adagio11:476Hartmann: Symphony no. 6 - II. Toccata variata. Presto12:162005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:07:15
1Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218: I. Allegro8:372Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218: II. Andante cantabile7:163Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218: III. Rondo: Andante grazioso7:254Suite No. 2: I. Lebhaft2:575Suite No. 2: II. Filessend3:446Suite No. 2: III. Sturmisch1:387Suite No. 2: IV. Jazz - Tempo, sehr robust2:148Concerto funebre : I. Introduction: Largo1:269Concerto funebre : II. Adagio7:3010Concerto funebre : III. Allegro di molto8:1511Concerto funebre : IV. Choral: Langsamer Marsch4:1712Symphony No. 8 in D major, K. 48: I. Allegro2:5813Symphony No. 8 in D major, K. 48: II. Andante2:3614Symphony No. 8 in D major, K. 48: III. Menuetto3:0315Symphony No. 8 in D major, K. 48: IV. Molto allegro3:19Sinfonia Tragica / Concerto for Viola and Piano
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 50:49
1Sinfonia tragica for Orchestra: I. Introduktion – Mit bewegtem Ausdruck. Adagio12:432Sinfonia tragica for Orchestra: II. Tumultuoso – Allegro – Vivace – Misterioso10:523Concerto for Viola and Piano, accompanied by Wind Instruments and Percussion: I. Rondo9:504Concerto for Viola and Piano, accompanied by Wind Instruments and Percussion: II. Melodie11:285Concerto for Viola and Piano, accompanied by Wind Instruments and Percussion: III. Rondo varié5:56Concerto funebre / Sonatas & Suites for Solo Violin
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:19:58
1Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra: I. Introduction (Largo) —1:402Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra: II. Adagio —7:003Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra: III. Allegro di molto —8:334Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra: IV. Choral (Langsamer Marsch)4:275Suite no. 1 for Solo Violin: I. Canon: Lebhaft3:386Suite no. 1 for Solo Violin: II. Fuge: Munter3:237Suite no. 1 for Solo Violin: III. Rondo: Nicht zu Schnell4:518Suite no. 1 for Solo Violin: IV. Dreiteilige Liedform: Breit —4:219Suite no. 1 for Solo Violin: V. Ciaccona: Lebhaft3:3510Suite no. 2 for Solo Violin: I. Lebhaft2:1211Suite no. 2 for Solo Violin: II. Fließend3:2712Suite no. 2 for Solo Violin: III. Stürmisch1:4713Suite no. 2 for Solo Violin: IV. Jazz Tempo: Sehr robust2:0214Sonata no. 1 for Solo Violin: I. Toccata: Sehr lebhaft achtel1:5015Sonata no. 1 for Solo Violin: II. Ruhig viertel, sehr fließend3:5916Sonata no. 1 for Solo Violin: III. Verrücht schnell, unschön spielen2:0417Sonata no. 1 for Solo Violin: IV. Breit! Mit viel Ausdruck4:4018Sonata no. 1 for Solo Violin: V. Fuge (Toccata): Heiter, burschikos2:2019Sonata no. 2 for Solo Violin: I. Langsam, breite2:1920Sonata no. 2 for Solo Violin: II. Variationen über eine rhythmische Idee: Äusserst lebhaft2:4621Sonata no. 2 for Solo Violin: III. Sehr langsame… mit viel Empfindung5:4622Sonata no. 2 for Solo Violin: IV. Fuge: Sehr wild und roh im Vortrag3:182011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 2:23:58
Disc 11Symphony no. 1 "Versuch enes Requiems": I. Introduktion: Elend2:572Symphony no. 1 "Versuch enes Requiems": II. Frühling5:003Symphony no. 1 "Versuch enes Requiems": III. Thema mit vier Variationen7:224Symphony no. 1 "Versuch enes Requiems": IV. Tränen8:025Symphony no. 1 "Versuch enes Requiems": V. Epilog: Bitte3:046Symphony no. 2: Adagio für großes Orchester15:277Symphony no. 3: I. Largo ma non troppo - Allegro con fuoco (Virtuose Fuge)16:128Symphony no. 3: II. Adagio (Mit bewegtem Ausdruck) - Andante - Allegro moderato - Andante - Adagio14:06Disc 21Symphony no. 4 for String Orchestra: I. Lento assai - Con passione14:542Symphony no. 4 for String Orchestra: II. Allegro di molto, risoluto10:393Symphony no. 4 for String Orchestra: III. Adagio appassionato7:224Symphony no. 5 "Sinfonia concertante": I. Toccata (Lebhaft)4:525Symphony no. 5 "Sinfonia concertante": II. Melodie7:216Symphony no. 5 "Sinfonia concertante": III. Rondo (Lustig - Sehr lebhaft)3:537Symphony no. 6: I. Adagio10:428Symphony no. 6: II. Toccata variata. Presto - Allegro assai12:05Symphonies 7 & 8 / Piano Works
2012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 2:02:05
Disc 11Symphony no. 7: I. Introduktion und Ricercare10:332Symphony no. 7: II. Adagio mesto cantanto e tranquillo12:293Symphony no. 7: III. Finale: Scherzoso virtuoso7:184Symphony no. 8: I. Cantilène: Lento assai, con passione15:455Symphony no. 8: II. Dithyrambe: Scherzo, lebhaft10:13Disc 21Piano Sonata "27 April 1945": I. Bewegt4:052Piano Sonata "27 April 1945": II. Presto assai (Scherzo)4:093Piano Sonata "27 April 1945": III. Marcia funebre (Lento)11:374Piano Sonata "27 April 1945": IV. Erste Fassung: Allegro risoluto7:575Piano Sonata "27 April 1945": V. Zweite Fassung: Allegro furioso (stürmisch, leidenschaftlich)5:496Jazz-Toccata and Fugue: I. Toccata5:217Jazz-Toccata and Fugue: II. Fugue3:448Sonatine - Äußerst lebhaft (sehr rhythmisch)8:029Kleine Suite no. 1: I. Sehr langsam2:1410Kleine Suite no. 1: II. Sehr lebhaft (sehr roh)0:4811Kleine Suite no. 1: III. Fließend1:2012Kleine Suite no. 1: IV. Breit und zart1:3013Kleine Suite no. 1: V. Äußerst lebhaft0:3914Kleine Suite no. 2: I. Lebhaft1:0115Kleine Suite no. 2: II. Sehr langsam; zart3:4616Kleine Suite no. 2: III. Fließend2:0617Kleine Suite no. 2: IV. Jazz1:39Beethoven / Bruckner / Hartmann / Holiger
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:34:35
Disc 11Streichquartett F-Dur, op. 135: I Allegretto5:522Streichquartett F-Dur, op. 135: II. Vivace3:193Streichquartett F-Dur, op. 135: III. Assai lento, cantante e tranquillo6:284Streichquartett F-Dur, op. 135: IV. Der schwer gefaßte Entschluß. „Muß es sein? Es muß sein”. Grave, ma non troppo tratto – Allegro6:345Streichquartett c-Moll, WAB 111: I. Allegro moderato8:206Streichquartett c-Moll, WAB 111: II. Andante6:427Streichquartett c-Moll, WAB 111: III. Scherzo: Presto – Trio3:138Streichquartett c-Moll, WAB 111: IV. Rondo: Schnell3:42Disc 21Streichquartett Nr. 2: I. Langsam – Äußerst lebhaft und sehr energisch9:462Streichquartett Nr. 2: II. Andantino (Sehr ausdrucksvoll)10:083Streichquartett Nr. 2: III. Presto6:264Streichquartett Nr. 2: To Elliot Carter24:052014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 27 tracks · 1:24:58
Disc 11Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act I: Overture - "l’hommage de Serge Prokofieff"9:572Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act I: Introduction - "Anno Domini"3:143Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act I: Erster Teil - "Du sehr verachter Bauernstand"6:134Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act I: "Der Baum"4:245Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act I: Finale - "O lauf, Bub!"3:096Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act I: Zwischenspiel - "Tränen des Vaterlandes, anno 1636"8:017Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act II: "Wald, hinten ein Kreuz - Komm, Trost der Nacht"3:488Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act II: "Bäume, lauter Bäume"3:139Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act II: "Unser lieber Vater"3:0610Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act II: "Mein treuester Vater"3:4011Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act II: "Nun Simplici, liebes Kind"6:1912Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act II: "Mein lieber und wahrer, einziger Sohn"4:14Disc 21Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Bankett beim Gouverneur"0:552Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Drei Tänze der Dame, No. 1 Schnell"1:303Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Drei Tänze der Dame, No. 2 Lustig"1:064Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Drei Tänze der Dame, No. 3 Furioso"1:155Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Als Männer sind wir durchaus ehrlich"2:496Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Lebhaft - Hochedler Herr Gubernator"2:087Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Hauptmann tanzt mit der Dame"0:358Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Mein Gott"1:449Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Schlag mich der Donner"1:1410Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Herr, jetzt seh’ ich wohl"1:2611Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Bravo, Simplici, bravissimo!"1:5512Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Finale - Dank Herr!"3:1313Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Marsch - Es dröhnt die Stadt"2:1114Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Gepriesen sei der Richter der Wahrheit!"1:5415Simplicius Simplicissimus, Act III: "Apotheose"1:452014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 3:18:50
Disc 11Symphony no. 1 "Versuch eines Requiems": I. Introduktion: Elend. Ich sitze und schaue aus3:192Symphony no. 1 "Versuch eines Requiems": II. Frühling: Als jüngst der Flieder blühte4:483Symphony no. 1 "Versuch eines Requiems": III. Thema mit vier Variationen7:324Symphony no. 1 "Versuch eines Requiems": IV. Tränen: In der Nacht der Einsamkeit7:435Symphony no. 1 "Versuch eines Requiems": V. Epilog: Bitte. Ich hörte die Allmutter2:556Symphony no. 2 "Adagio"17:027Symphony no. 3: I. Largo ma non troppo - Allegro con fuoco16:468Symphony no. 3: II. Adagio - Andante - Allegro moderato - Andante - Adagio15:15Disc 21Symphony no. 4: I. Lento assai - Con passione14:472Symphony no. 4: II. Allegro di molto, risoluto9:193Symphony no. 4: III. Adagio appassionato6:494Symphony no. 5 "Sinfonia concertante": I. Toccata4:465Symphony no. 5 "Sinfonia concertante": II. Melodie7:006Symphony no. 5 "Sinfonia concertante": III. Rondo4:087Symphony no. 6: I. Adagio13:238Symphony no. 6: II. Toccata variata12:01Disc 31Symphony no. 7: I. Introduction und Ricercare9:162Symphony no. 7: II. Adagio mesto cantanto e tranquillo / Finale: Scherzoso virtuoso18:253Symphony no. 8: I. Catilene13:464Symphony no. 8: II. Dithyrambe: Scherzo - Fuga9:502015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 55:30
1Concerto funebre: I. Introduktion. Largo1:372Concerto funebre: II. Adagio7:183Concerto funebre: III. Allegro di molto8:324Concerto funebre: Choral. Langsamer Marsch4:075Concertino, op. 42: Allegretto cantabile6:326Concertino, op. 42: I. Cadenza. Lento - Adagio6:007Concertino, op. 42: II. Allegro moderato poco rubato5:128Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, op. 47 no. 310:479Unfinished Sonata (1945) for Violin and Piano: Moderato con moto5:252019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:03:02
1String Quartet No. 1 "Carillon": I. Langsam - Sehr lebhaft8:202String Quartet No. 1 "Carillon": II. Con sordino8:013String Quartet No. 1 "Carillon": III. Con tutta forza6:284String Quartet No. 2: I. Langsam11:055String Quartet No. 2: II. Andantino11:556String Quartet No. 2: III. Presto7:137Langsamer Satz10:002023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 1:15:54
1Piano Sonata "17. April 1945" (From Manuscript II): Bewegt / Marcia Funebre (Lento) / Allegro Risoluto18:482Fugitive Pieces (2004-2005): 1. Blind Guide / 2. Burst Door / 3. Milk Teeth / 4. Running, Falling / 5. Bella: Brahms / 6. Purple-Orange / 7. Into Sound / 8. Decrescendo / 9: Dreckiger Jude / 10: Pedhi Mou / 11. Russian Dolls / 12. Ritardando / 13. Zakynthos: Sea / 14. Zakynthos: Stars / 15. Zakynthos: Stones / 16. Ghetto Lullaby [Tapping] / 17. Car Radio / 18. Bella33:473Nachtstücke For Piano (2012): 1. Wache Nacht / 2. Gebet / 3. Traumes Wirren / 4. Leb wohl, Frau Welt / 5. Wiegenlied / 6. Oktober 194419:464Piano Sonata "27. April 1945" (from Manuscript I): Presto Assai (Scherzo) (Version B)3:332025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 47:25
1Concerto funèbre: I. Introduction (Largo)1:262Concerto funèbre: II. Adagio7:193Concerto funèbre: III. Allegro di molto7:594Concerto funèbre: IV. Choral (Langsamer Marsch)4:005Tzigane, M. 76 (Version for Violin & Orchestra)10:236Stradivari16:18
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Stravinsky: Symphony in C / Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat / Hartmann: Symphony no. 2 “Adagio” / Hansson: Symphony no. 4 “Requiem” / Harris: Symphony no. 7 / Hovhaness: Symphony no. 3Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 2:29:29Disc 1 1Broadcast Commentary4:44 2Symphony in C: I. Moderato alla breve9:03 3Symphony in C: II. Larghetto concertante7:03 4Symphony in C: III. Allegretto4:25 5Symphony in C: IV. Largo: Tempo giusto, alla breve7:39 6Broadcast Commentary1:21 7Symphony no. 4, op. 34 “Requiem”: I. Kyrie (Andante inquieto)6:55 8Symphony no. 4, op. 34 “Requiem”: II. Requiescat (Largo)4:38 9Symphony no. 4, op. 34 “Requiem”: III. Dies irae (Presto)2:10 10Symphony no. 4, op. 34 “Requiem”: IV. Lux aeterna (Largo pastorale)6:37 11Symphony no. 720:08 Disc 21Broadcast Commentary3:49 2Symphony in E-flat: I. Sehr lebhaft5:07 3Symphony in E-flat: II. Sehr langsam9:13 4Symphony in E-flat: III. Lebhaft6:29 5Symphony in E-flat: IV. Mäßig schnelle Halbe9:01 6Symphony no. 2 “Adagio”15:08 7Symphony no. 3, op. 148: I. Andante maestoso - Presto8:14 8Symphony no. 3, op. 148: II. Andante8:44 9Symphony no. 3, op. 148: III. Allegro molto9:01 | Compilation | October 2011 | |
| 2016 | Orchestral Works (Live)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 1:03:221Piano Concerto: I. Andante (Live)4:26 2Piano Concerto: II. Mélodie (Live)6:06 3Piano Concerto: III. Rondeau varié (Live)4:14 4Concerto funebre: I. Introduction. Largo (Live)1:19 5Concerto funebre: II. Adagio (Live)7:27 6Concerto funebre: III. Allegro di molto (Live)7:18 7Concerto funebre: IV. Langsamer marsch (Live)3:53 8Symphonische Hymnen: I. Fantasie (Live)10:33 9Symphonische Hymnen: II. Adagio - Toccata (Live)9:41 10Symphonische Hymnen: III. Toccata (Live)8:25 | Live | 1 January 2016 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Karl Amadeus Hartmann head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 26 | 87.5th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 24 | 88.5th |
| Studio albums | 22 | 97th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 28 | 96.4th |
| Recording span (years) | -26 | 7.7th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Bavarian Order of Merit | won | |
| 1961 | Berliner Kunstpreis | won | |
| 1961 | Schwabing Art Prize | won |
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Tier rule: notable long tail (listeners 0, 26 language versions)
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Wikidata: Q366100 · MusicBrainz: cc6b389a-0644-4363-91f8-9852140f13f4
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