The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-29

n NATIONAL monument Is to be
~ erected to the memory OF Jens
IA Peter Emflius Hartmann. Tvs
recent death of this foremost
Danish composer has removed
from the sphere of musical activity
a patriot who fostered the viking
spirit through his songs AT the age or
more than e5 years. when the summons
came, he had been able 10 the last to
add fresh laurels to the artistic crown
which was his country's as web as his
The tribute of the king and the work
mans mite wifi combine for the purpose
of testimonial which win tell the world
what Hartmann meant to the Danish
nation.
Prof Hartmann was the essence OF
Scandinavian musical culture. In
measure his was the method which made
possible the exquisite tone pictures OF
Grieg. While differing slightly from the
famous Norwegian in point of nationality,
yet II was due to the training gained
under Hartmann that Edward Grieg
reached that mastery in composition
which found its highest expression in the
well known Peer Gyntv suite, the words
of which are Henrik Ibsen's. Hartmann
knew how to reach the national heart
through the national pulse. To listen
to the rendering of the Crusaders" as
the wonderful composition rose heaven
students at the national university. was
TO be present on an occasion that IF It's
own volition stamped itself on the mind.
The aged composer knew not the mean
ing of age assit applied &c his devoted
art. Ever youthful In thought and nc
tion. his compositions to the last re-
tanned that subtle something without
which no musician Of pretsnslons cans he
considered great lens Peter EmIlins
Hartmann left his county q heritage
of which any nation might well be proud.
Hartmann descended from an old mu-
steal family His father was organist at
the Garrison church and his grandfather.
who emigrated to Denmark from Gross
Glogau, in Schlesia, held n post at the
chapel 1t was the purpose TO have
young Hartmann study law. and he
graduated with honors in 1897. but music
from early infancy had been his passion
ate desire. 1t needed but the ever
watchful eye of Weyse to detect In the
young lawyer talent that stood await
ing It's opportunity. With his character
istic hclpfulness weyse showed the
young man In which particular direction
his genius pointed. For this reason there
always remained In Prof Hnrtmann's
composition an inkling of that superla-
| tive strain which was Weyse's and no
| ones else Hartmann became in time
| the successor to his teacher as organist
(! at the Church Of Our Lady: what Weyse
! meant to Ingemann's songs Hartmann
| meant to the magnificent works Of Och
| lenschlaeger.
| The music to Oehlenschlaeger' famous
poem THE Golden Horns was written
| In 1882. Almost Immediately the compost
| ton created sensation. The national
| art which flowed along the current OF
! words and music took hold of the popular
| feeling and held the Danish spirit en-
tranced This was not only the chromatic
/ scale arranged to suit the purpose OF a
| poem IT was the essence Of life as il
4 must have been lived n that age Of gold
| en- horns and viking conquest. Like few
| OF his brethren In tho art. Hartmann
woke up that morning to find himself
4 famous.
During that same year the young conn
| poser wrote the music to ''The Raven :
The year following came The Jura
| Mountains" and subsequent TO The
{; Crusaders" composed I'm 1885. the event
In his career arrived when he act to music
| oehlenschlaeger' "Oluf the Holy The
| the chief features In the dramatic poem,
To this day remains one OF the best ex-
| a->p'cs ~ Scandinavian art.
r was In the famous Gewandhaus. In
| FepziE. that Hartman directed the or
, chesirn during the rendering of his "Ha-
| kon Jari" written the same year. 1874
! The charming little idyl, "I.iden Kristen. =
was furnished text by Hans Christian
Andersen then IN the zenith OF his new
found popularity, .Liden Kristen Is still
considered among the best features Of
| the repertoire at the Royal Danish thea
ter In quick succession to the above fol-
lowed 'Axel and valoorg.' .'Correggio. "
"Yrsa." "Maurerpigen fthe Moorish
Ma,deu) etc etc Already here IL found