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Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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Karl Amadeus Hartmann (August 2, 1905 Munich – December 5, 1963 Munich) was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century. Perhaps the most well-known is his Symphony No. 1, titled "Attempt at a requiem" (Versuch eines Requiems). This work began in 1936 as a cantata for alto solo and orchestra, loosely based on a few select 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 individuals under the early Nazi regime. After the defeat of the Third Reich in World War II, the real victims of the regime 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 1954-1955 as his Symphony No. 1, and finally published it in 1956. As this example indicates, Hartmann 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suppressed most of his substantial orchestral works of the late 1930s and the war years, either allowing them to remain unpublished or, in several cases, reworking them - or portions of them - into the series of numbered symphonies that he produced in the late 1940s and early 1950s. As a composer Hartmann attempted a difficult synthesis of many different idioms, including musical Expressionis
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Concerto funèbre for Violin and String Orchestra: I. Introduction (Largo)
3252Concerto Funèbre for Violin and String Orchestra: II. Adagio
2103Symphony No.4: 1. Lento assai - Con passione
1994Concerto funebre: II. Adagio
1675Concerto Funèbre for Violin and String Orchestra: III. Allegro di molto
1626Symphony No.4: 3. Adagio appassionato
1617Kammerkonzert for Clarinet, String Quartet and String Orchestra: Tanz-Variationen: Kammerkonzert for Clarinet, String Quartet and String Orchestra: Tanz-Variationen: Einleitung und Thema (Vivo)
1578Concerto Funebre: III. Allegro di molto
1569Symphony No.4: 2. Allegro di molto, risoluto
15410Piano Sonata "Den 27. April 1945": I. Bewegt
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Hartmann: Funèbre
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Contemporary Clarinet Concertos
Hartmann: Symphonies Nos. 1-8
Funèbre
Hartmann, K.A.: Concerto Funebre / Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4
Hartmann, K.A.: Kleine Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Piano Sonatas / Jazz Toccata and Fuge / Piano Sonatina
Simplicius Simplicissimus
Hartmann, K.A.: Sinfonia Tragica / Concerto for Viola and Piano
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Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis - Hartmann: Piano Sonata "27 April 1945"
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Wartime Consolations
Hartmann: Orchestral Works (Live)
Hartmann: Das Klavierwerk