"Claude Debussy as I knew him" and other writings of Arthur Hartmann

Author(s)

• Hartmann, Arthur
• Hsu, Samuel
• Grolnic, Sidney
• Peters, Mark
• Grayson, David

Bibliographic Information

"Claude Debussy as I knew him" and other writings of Arthur Hartmann

edited by Samuel Hsu, Sidney Grolnic, and Mark Peters ; foreword by David Grayson

（Eastman studies in music）

University of Rochester Press, 2003

Other Title

Claude Debussy as I knew him

Note

Edited from mss. in the Hartmann Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-328) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956), a celebrated violinist who performed over a thousand recitals throughout Europe and the United States, met Claude Debussy in 1908, after he had transcribed "Il pleure dans mon coeur" for violin and piano. Their relationship developed into friendship, and in February 1914 Debussy accompanied Hartmann in a performance of three of Hartmann's transcriptions of Debussy's works. The two friends saw each other for the last time on thecomposer's birthday, 22 August 1914, shortly before Hartmann and his family fled Europe to escape the Great War. With the publication of Hartmann's memoir "Claude Debussy as I Knew Him", along with the twenty-two known letters from Claude Debussy and the thirty-nine letters from Emma Debussy to Hartmann and his wife, the richness and importance of their relationship can be appreciated for the first time. The memoir covers the years 1908-1918.Debussy's letters to Hartmann span the years 1908-1916, and Emma [Mme] Debussy's letters span the years 1910-1932. Also included are the facsimile of Debussy's Minstrels manuscript transcription for violin and piano, threepreviously unpublished letters from Debussy to Pierre Louys, and correspondence between Hartmann and Bela Bartok, Nina Grieg, Alexandre Guilmant, Charles Martin Loeffler, Marian MacDowell, Hans Richter, and Anton Webern, along with Hartmann's memoirs on Loeffler, Ysaye, Joachim and Grieg. Samuel Hsu is a pianist and Professor of Music at Philadelphia Biblical University. He completed his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1972 with a dissertation on Debussy. Sidney Grolnic has been a librarian in the Music Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia for over twenty years and serves as curator of the library's Hartmann Collection. Mark Peters has recently received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology at the University of Pittsburgh; his dissertation was on J. S. Bach's sacred cantatas to texts by Mariana von Ziegler.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Arthur Hartmann: A Biographical Sketch Part 2: Claude Debussy Letters from Claude and Emma Debussy to Arthur and Marie Hartmann Letters from Claude Debussy to Arthur Hartmann Letters from Emma Claude Debussy to Marie Hartmann and Arthur Hartmann Part 3: Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler Letter from Loeffler to Arthur Hartmann Eugene Ysaye: Colossus of the Violin Memories of Masters of the Bow: An Impression of Joachim's Last Years Edvard Grieg Appendix A: The Minstrels Manuscripts Appendix B: Three Letters from Claude Debussy to Pierre Louys Arthur Hartmann: Catalogue of Compositions and Transcriptions

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Details

• NCID: BA68427521
• ISBN:
  • 1580461042
• LCCN: 2003012641
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Rochester, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 339 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML418.H34
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hartmann, Arthur, 1881-1956
  • LCSH : Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
  • LCSH : Hartmann, Arthur, 1881-1956 -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Musicians
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA27676296