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Here is a little volume of four miniatures that I, the publisher of Edition HH, wrote as gifts. The first, Mit Gefihl, is a love song dedicated to my wife, whom I married 57 years ago. We had a beloved friend, Yvonne, who died far too young; we nicknamed her ‘Goldilocks’ because of her strikingly blond hair, and La Fille aux Chelox d’or is an attempt to capture her personality and wonderfully quirky sense of humour. The third piece is dedicated to myself, so naturally its spirit is Triste. Sixty years ago my father, Christian Hartmann, composed the songs for Klatremus Lillemann, the principal character in the popular Norwegian children’s play Dyrene i Hakkebakkeskogen. Christian was an endless source of beautiful melodies, so the extreme simplicity of the theme of Danse noble, written to celebrate his 69th birthday on 3 June 1979, was something of a joke between us.
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Playing score
Mit Gefihl (pdf)