| 11) Marketplace in
Limoges
Hartmann made more than150 water-colourss in the French town of Limoges. This painting shows the Marketplace with the women in their colorful local dresses. You can recognize their squabbling amongst each other very well in the music. As the original painting is lost, I placed Kandinsky's composition no 10, reflecting the atmosphere of the painting perfectly (in my humble opinion)  |
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 In Paris Hartmann painted a portrait of a fellow-architect, exploring the Parisian Catacombs. This gloomy (almost black & white) painting, you can see on the right. This painting and Hartmann's premature death inspired Mussorgsky to a threatening, sinistervariation of the Promenade, titled : 13) "Cum mortuis in lingua mortua". Mussorgsky declares in a footnote: "A Latin Text: With the Dead in a dead language.The passing away of Hartmann's creative spirit leads me to the bones and skulls, and the skulls glow in the dark " This sinister atmosphere can be experienced very well in this piece of music and is emphasized by the addition of "church-bells" and plenty of "sweep" and "chorus" (synth-effects), all of which I added. 
The arms above are linked to my Photogallery of the Catacombs at Paris. Use your back-button to come back here |
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