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J.P.E. Hartmann

Liden Kirsten

Romantisk Synge Stykke i én Act af H.C. Andersen

Klein Karin

Romantisches Singspiel in einem Akt

Little Kirsten

Romantic Singspiel in One Act

Opus 44
HartW 3
JPEW IV/1
DF 191

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Composition: 1844-1846.

During his stay in Rome in 1833, Hans Christian Andersen was inspired by reading Rahbek's and Nyerup's edition of the old heroic ballads to write an opera text about Hr. Sverkel, however he had to give up his original idea that the music should be arrangements of the old folk songs. The text underwent several changes before Andersen handed it over to Hartmann in 1844, after Ivar Bredal had declined to arrange the music.The original intention was that it should be a Singspiel with spoken dialogue, but eventually it turned into a one act opera with recitatives. According to the newspaper reviews the premiere in May 1846 was a success, but Hartmann was not entirely happy with Sverkel's romance, so at his suggestion Andersen wrote a new text, which became No. 7, the recitative and romance "Ja, jeg er hjemme / Langt, langt fra Hjemmets Kyst", which was used for the first time on 4 March 1847, and from then on has been one of the most loved numbers in the opera. Apparently the opera was not very popular until the revival during the 1858/59 season, when it was advertised as "an original romantic opera in two acts". Thereafter it became extremely popular, especially after the war with Prussia and Austria in 1864 when it became a kind of national opera, passing its 100th performance in 1891. When it was performed at the celebration of Hartmann's 150th birthday 14 May 1955, it reached its 312th performance.

Instrumentation: Orchestra: fl.flauto (flute) pic., 2 fl.flauto (flute) , 2 ob.oboe , 2 cl.clarinetto (clarinet) , 2 fg.fagotto (bassoon) , 3 cor.corno (horn) , 2 tr.tromba (trumpet) , 2 trb.t.trombone tenore (tenor trombone) , trb.b.trombone basso (bass trombone) , timp.timpani , arp.arpa (harp) , vl.1violino 1 , vl.2violino 2 , va.viola , vc.violoncello , cb.contrabbasso (double bass) Choir: S.soprano , S.soprano , A.alto , A.alto , T.tenore (tenor) , T.tenore (tenor) , B.basso (bass) , B.basso (bass)

Roles: Fru Malfred (Alto); Liden Kirsten, hendes Datter (Soprano); Etle, hendes Slægtning (Mezzo Soprano); Mor Ingeborg, en Bondekone (Alto); Sverkel, hendes søn (Tenor); Narren (Tenor)
Lady Malfred (Alto); Kirsten, her daughter (Soprano); Etle, her relative (Mezzo Soprano); Mother Ingeborg, a farmer's wife (Alto); Sverkel, her son (Tenor); The Jester (Tenor)
Frau Martha (Alto); Karin, ihre Tochter (Soprano); Etla, ihre Verwandte (Mezzo Soprano); Mutter Ingeborg, eine Bauernfrau (Alto); Hialmar, ihr Sohn (Tenor); Der Narr (Tenor)

Music

Sources

Sketches

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Sketch]

12 pages; 33 x 25.5 cm.

2 single folios and 2 bifolios, where the top half of the folios is missing. Written in black ink. Paper: 18 staves. At the top of the single folios in Hartmann's hand: "Paa 10^de Side er Texten aldeles feilagtigt underlagt bør være saaledes:" (Below the correct text underlay is given for all four stanzas of the Jester's Ballad, No. 2, bb. 35ff.).

Sketches for among other things Nos. 10 and 11.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CII, 7 Hartmanns Samling 184 (Kapsel L - R).

Sketches

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Sketch]

4 pages; 16.5 x 26 cm; 33.5 x 26 cm.

a) 5 bars from No. 2, "Dands og Vise med Chor", "Jon! binde op Hjelmen af Guld" / "O giv mig ja, ved Daggry maa vi skilles". (On the verso, sketch for "Skanderborg Festmarsch") / b) Final chorus and overture.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København MA ms 485 mu 8309.0592.

Draft (No. 7)

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Draft, Excerpt]

2 pages ; 33.5 x 25.5 cm.

1 single folio. Written in brown ink. Paper: 18 staves. Notated on two staves: vocal part and sustained bass notes. A few of the bass's bars are empty. Continuo figures in some bars. Very few differences in the bass part from the final version. Probably a draft for the fully written-out vocal score. Above the first stave: "Romance". At the end of the music dated: "Decbr: 46". After the last stave: "(Indlagt i liden Kirsten)".

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 7 Hartmanns Samling 184 (Kapsel L - R).

Score, autograph, fair copy (Overture)

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score, Fair copy, Complete]

77 pages; 32 x 25.5 cm.

Title page: J.P.E. Hartmann / Ouverture / til / "Liden Kirsten". [Stamped "Det Kongelige Theaters Eiendom".]

Written in black ink. Paper 18 and 20 staves. A few additions by Hartmann in ink (different colour from the original) and a few later corrections in pencil in an unknown hand. End-dating: "I:P:E: Hartmann d. 21 Marts [in a different hand] 1846"..

The first title page, "Liden Kirsten / romantisk Synge Stykke / i én Act / af H.C Andersen", originally functioned as title page for the copy of the autograph of Act One, of which only the overture is now preserved, and which along with the autograph score of Act Two made up the earliest complete edition of the opera. This volume was long thought lost, but was transferred to the Royal Library in 1997 in connection with the purchase by the Cultural Heritage Committee of Wilhelm Hansen Publishers' archives. The autograph score served as printing manuscript for the edition of Wilhelm Hansen's. (Plate no. 13717) published in 1905.

Condition: The manuscript has severe marks of fire. It was completely restored in 2003, when it was separated from the rest of the volume.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København MA ms 4475 mu 9705.2800.

Piano score and short score, autograph, ending of the overture

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Short score, Fair copy, Excerpt]

2 pages; 35.5 x 33.5 cm.

1 single folio. Written in black ink. Paper: 12 staves. At the top of page: "Partituret efter pag 59." The first twelve bars are notated on two staves (piano notation), the next five bars on three staves with indications of instruments, then six bars in piano notation.

Contains the last twenty-seven bars in piano score and short score. The last fifth bars are identical to the changed version of the overture in the copy of the score.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CII, 7 Hartmanns Samling 184 (Kapsel L-R).

Score, autograph, fair copy (Act Two)

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score, Fair copy, Excerpt]

218 pages; 33 x 25.5 cm.

Title page: No title page. Title on spine: "I.P.E. / HARTMANN / LIDEN / KIRSTEN / PART. / 2. AKT".

In brown half-binding with title on spine in gold. Pages have been trimmed in connection with the binding, which carries the monogram of Frederik IX, indicating that the earliest possible date of the binding is 1947. The copy shows signs of frequent use. Written in brown ink. Paper: 18 staves, except insertion pp. 47-50: 16 staves; insertion pp. 81-84: 12 staves; insert pp. 197-200: 16 staves. Numerous additions in pencil, ink and blue brown crayon. Various earlier paginations in pencil and ink, beginning on p. 3, thus disregarding the insertion on pp. 1-2. From p. 35 (no. 8) to the end of the volume all bifilios are numbered in ink as "39-80"; no bifolio numbering on pp. 1-34 (No. 7) because of the insertion with the new version of No. 7, dated a month and a half later than the end-dating of the whole. End-datings: "I:P:E: Hartmann 28 Decbr 1846" (p. 21, end of No. 7); "23/4 45." (p. 35, beginning of No. 8); "25/4 45." (p. 46, end of no. 8); "I:P:E: Hartmann d: 10 Novbr: 1845 Op: 44" (p. 218, end of Act Two).

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 7 Hartmanns Samling 041.

Vocal score, autograph, printer's copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Vocal score, printer's copy, Complete]

100 pages; 32.5 x 24 cm.

In full cloth binding with handwritten label in Hartmann's hand pasted on front cove,r inscribed: "Liden Kirsten / Text af H.C. Andersen / Claveerudtog. / Op: 44. / 1846." Written in black ink. Paper: 18 staves. Two first pages blank and unpaginated, from first music page paginated 1-98. Pages. 1-8 (overture), pp. 1-98 (Nos. 1-10). Between pp. 2 and 3 of the overture a bifolio has been inserted with 8 bars "ad pag 2 più facile" (simplified version of bb. 72-79 of the overture). Page 6 contains an alternative, simplified version (più facile). Overture dated on page 8: "I:P:E: Hartmann d: 20 Septbr. 1846". At the end of the music on p. 98 signed and end-dated: "I:P:E: Hartmann Op. 44 / Strandveien 8 Septbr 1846".

Comments on pages 9 and 30 suggests that the autograph was used as the printing manuscript for the piano score, issued by the publishers C.C. Lose & Delbanco in November 1846.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 7 Hartmanns Samling 039.

Vocal score, autograph, (no. 7)

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Vocal score, Fair copy, Excerpt]

6 pages; 35 x 26 cm.

6 unpaginated folios, with the last three empty. Written in brown ink. Paper: 14 staves. At the top of p. 1 Hartmann has written: "Indledning og Romance / for / Tenor-Baryton med Piano / af / I:P:E Hartmann / Indlagt i 'Liden Kirsten' som / anden Akts 1^ste Scene." Signed "I:P:E: Hartmann / 1846."

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København MA ms 4475 9705.2800.

Score, manuscript copy, fair copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Score, Fair copy, Complete]

Condition: Vol. 1 is In very poor condition with strong marks of use. Indications of various cuts. On some pages the corners are bent back or snipped entirely off to mark the cuts; parts of the music are thus missing on these pages.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 113 (DKT 396; mu 7005.1571).

Volume 1

219 pages; 33.5 x 25 cm.

Title page: Liden Kirsten / romantisk Syngespil / af / H.C. Andersen / Musiken comp. / af / J.P.E. Hartmann.

In stiff brown binding with handwritten label pasted on: "396 / Liden Kirsten / Partitur I Akt. Stamped :"DET KGL. THEATERS MUSIKARKIV." Written in brown ink. Paper 18 staves.

The score is not dated, but vol. 1 is probably older than vol. 2, since the text is written in Kurrent script with older spellings. Vol. 1 contains only the changed version of the end of the overture and the changed version of no. 7; the copying must therefore have been made at a time when this these two changes have already been pasted into the manuscript, used as the original source of the manuscript copy.

Volume 2

216 pages; 33.5 x 25 cm.

Title page: Liden Kirsten / Opera i 2 Akter / af / J.P.E: Hartmann / Partitur. / 2^den Akt.

In stiff brown binding with title label pasted on: "396 / Liden Kirsten / Partitur II Akt." Written in brown ink. Paper: 12 staves. Pages 199-200 containing Ingeborg's recitative version and 12 bb. 35ff. have been cancelled and a new page 199-200, in a different hand and on different paper with the original spoken version, has been inserted.

Score, manuscript copy, fair copy (Act One)

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Score, Fair copy, Excerpt]

148 pages; 33.5 x 25 cm.

Written in brown ink. Paper: 18 staves. Paginated 71-219.

Earlier bound with the autograph of the overture, probably as replacement for the autograph of Act One after it was burnt. Same copyist as the copy of Act Two.

Condition: Bound and restored in 2003.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København MA ms 4475 mu 9705.2800.

Vocal score, manuscript copy, fair copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Vocal score, Fair copy, Complete]

104 pages; 32.5 x 25,5 cm.

In leather half binding with marbled sides. Handwritten label on front cover inscribed in pencil: "Liden Kirsten" (almost illegible). Written in black ink. Paper: 18 staves. Paginated on every other page.

Unsigned copy of the autograph vocal score with the same instructions to the music engraver.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 7 Hartmanns Samling 040.

Score, manuscript copy, fragment (Overture)

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Score, Fair copy, Fragment]

8 pages; 33,5 x 25 cm.

Written in black ink. Paper: 20 staves. Paginated 59-66.

Consists of bb. 233-270 of the original ending of the overture.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CII, 7 Hartmanns Samling 184 (Kapsel L-R).

Vocal and instrumental parts, manuscript copies

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Parts, Fair copy, Complete]

32 x 25 cm.

Liden Kirsten (2); Mor Ingeborg (2); Fru Malfred (2); Etle (2); Sverkel (1); Narren (1); vl.1 (5); vl.2 (4); va. (3); vc. (3)., cb. (3); fl. (3); ob. (2), cl. (2), fg. (2), cor. (3); tr. (2); trb. (3), timp., arpa. S.1 (6); S.2 (5); T.I, (2); T.2 (2); B.1 (3); B.2 (3). The parts were used at the first performance on 12 May 1846 and apparently were employed for all 332 performances at The Royal Theatre. Ongoing changes have been added in the course of time including musicians' handwritten signatures from performances right up to 1947, as well as a performance in Stockholm in 1928. The material bears strong traces of having been used many times. The instrumental parts in faded purple cardboard with cloth spines, the choral parts in blue cardboard.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København DKT 396, vocal parts also with the shelf mark KT III 206.

Prompt book, manuscript copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Complete]

240 pages; 28 x 38.5 cm.

Title page: Liden Kirsten / Souffleur-Partie.

Stamped "Det Kongelige Theaters Eiendom". Various corrections and cuts from different performances. No. 7, Sverkel's "Introduction and Romance": first page of the original No. 7 pasted over with new version; other pages belonging to the original version of No. 7 cancelled, then the new No. 7 pasted in as extra pages. Same copyist as the rest of the Royal Theatre's performance material.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København KTA 396. Orkesterbiblioteket.

Répétiteur's part, manuscript copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Short score, Fair copy]

33 pages; 33.5 x 25 cm.

Title page: Repetiteur-Partie / til / Liden Kirsten.

Written in ink with corrections and cancellations in pencil. Unsigned and undated; inserted in blue board and inscribed: "Liden Kirsten / 71 B / [in an different hand] 71 A." Notated for 2 violins, used for rehearsing the dances in Nos. 2, 6, 9, and 12. Originally drawn up for the performance in 1846 by the same copyist who wrote out the parts. Later additions in French about the choreography of August Bournonville, probably used in connection with his rehearsal of the opera on 29 October 1858. A number of figures added in Bournonville's hand probably refer to the now lost overview with the notations of the dances in connection with the revival on 24 April 1869.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København KTA 396 (I) 71A.

Choral score, manuscript copy, fair copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Fair copy, Complete]

86 pages; 28 x 38.5 cm.

Choral score for rehearsals.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København DKT 396.

Répétiteur's part, manuscript copy, fair copy (No. 9)

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Parts, Fair copy]

16 pages; 35.5 x 25.5 cm.

For solo violin. Unsigned and undated, inserted in grey boards, inscribed "A 396 / 14 / Liden Kirsten". Label pasted on cover: "112". Label pasted on first music page: "71 B". Used to rehearse the dances in No. 9, probably in connection with the performances after Bournonville's death in 1879.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København MA ms 3086.

Performance material (German), manuscript copies

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Score and parts, Fair copy, Complete]

Title page: Klein Karin, Oper in einem Akt von H.C. Andersen. Musik von J.P.E. Hartmann.

Material for the performance in Weimar, January 1856. Dating in the prompt score: 17 January and 1 February. Overture with revised ending. No. 7: the original version followed by the altered one in both score and parts (including Hialmar's part) with neither of the versions cancelled. After the first version Hartmann has given a reference to the second version by adding "siehe Pag. 165"; before the second version in Hartmann's hand: "Der nächststehende Recitativ mit Romance kann statt der Arioso benutzt werden." Contrary to the rest of the score, the whole of the new version of no. 7 is written in Hartmann's hand. No. 12: Fru Ingeborg's lines in the original version with introductory speech without music. Names of characters: Frau Malte, Ingeborg, Etla, Karin, Hialmar, Narr. Numerous remarks in German in the score in Hartmann's hand.

D-WRhHochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Hochschulbibliothek, Weimar DNT/385.

Vocal score, print, first edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Vocal score, First edition, Complete]

C.C. Lose & Delbanco, Copenhagen 1846.

98 pages.

Title page: LIDEN KIRSTEN. / Romantisk Opera i 1 Act / af / H.C. ANDERSEN, / med Musik af / J.P.E. HARTMANN. / [...] Op. 44. Fuldstændigt Claveerudtog af Componisten. Pr. 5 Rbdlr. / KJÖBENHAVN. / Forlagt af C.C. Lose & Delbanco. / Em. Bærentzen & C^o lith. Inst.

Pl. no.2168.

Vocal score, print, later edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Vocal score, Later edition, Complete]

C.C. Lose, Copenhagen 1875.

103 pages.

Title page: LIDEN KIRSTEN. / Romantisk Opera i 1 Act / af / H.C. ANDERSEN / med Musik af / J.P.E. HARTMANN. [...] Op. 44. Fuldstændigt Claveerudtog af Componisten. Pr. 7 Kr. 50 Øre. [...] KIÖBENHAVN. / C.C. LOSES BOG- & MUSIKHANDEL / F. Borchorst.)

Pl. no.2168.

Sverkel's "Introduction and Romance" added as an appendix on pp. 99-103.

Vocal score, print, later edition (Nos. 3, 7 and 8)

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Later edition, Excerpt]

Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1885.

84 pages.

Title page: J.P.E. HARTMANN. / Romancer og Sange. / Ny af Komponisten revideret Udgave. / 3^die Afdeling. / Dramatiske Sange. / Forlæggerens Eiendom. / KJÖBENHAVN. / Wilhelm Hansens Musik-Forlag.

On pp. 51-67 in this collection.

Arrangement for piano two hands without text, print, first edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Piano score, First edition, Complete]

C.C. Lose, Copenhagen.

50 pages.

Title page: LIDEN KIRSTEN / af / J.P.E. HARTMANN. / For Piano solo. / FORLÆGGERENS EIENDOM / KJØBENHAVN. / C.C. LOSES BOG- & MUSIKHANDEL / (F. Borchorst).

Printed edition without text. All recitatives left out. From No. 10 on, the numbering has been changed compared with the vocal scores.

Libretto, draft, autograph

[Classification: Text, Manuscript, Autograph, Draft]

Incomplete draft on three loose pages of different sizes with the title: "Liden Kirsten / originalt Drama i to Acter af H.C. Andersen."

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København Den Collinske Manuscriptsamling 21, II^1.1 4º.

Libretto, autograph, fair copy

[Classification: Text, Manuscript, Autograph, Fair copy]

15 pages.

Title page: Liden Kirsten / originalt Syngestykke i to Acter / med en Ballet-Mellemact / af / H.C. Andersen. / Musik af J. Bredal.

H.C. Andersen's fair copy of the 1835-version of the text, differing greatly from the final text that was eventually used by Hartmann. 14 paginated folios and a pasted-in single folio, numbered as p. 15 in stiff original cover. Before and after the pasted-in folio one og more pages seems to be missing.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København Den Collinske Manuscriptsamling, 21, II^1.2 4º.

Libretto, autograph, fragment

[Classification: Text, Manuscript, Autograph, Draft, Fragment]

5 pages.

Draft for the 1846-version. The fragment begins with the third stanza of the Jester's Ballad from Act One: "Den Spillemand sin Harpe tog".

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København Den Collinske Manuscriptsamling 21, II^1.3 4º.

Libretto, manuscript copy

[Classification: Text, Manuscript, Copy, Fair copy]

46 pages.

Title page: Liden Kirsten / romantisk Syngestykke i een Act / af / H. C. Andersen / Musikken componeret af Secretair Hartmann. [in Andersen's hand:] "NB det med [bølgelinje] betegnet, antyder at der tales."

Manuscript copy with a number of corrections and additions by Andersen; handed in by Andersen to The Royal Theatre on 5 October 1844. The wavy lines in various places in the text, mentioned on the title pages, mean that Andersen originally meant the work to have interpolated spoken dialogue; thus the original genre designation "Syngestykke" (Singspiel).

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 2502 4º.

Libretto, print, first edition

[Classification: Text, Print, First edition]

Bianco Luno, Copenhagen 1846.

8 pages.

Title page: Liden Kirsten / originalt, romantisk Syngestykke i een Act / af / H.C. Andersen. / Musik af J.P.E. Hartmann. / Trykt i Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri