August Wilhelm Hartmann

August Wilhelm Hartmann was for some time also organist at the Garrison church in Copenhagen, but had to retire in 1824 because of an increasing deafness, whereupon his son became his successor.

August Wilhelm Hartmann’s wife Christiane Petrea Friderica Wittendorf (1778–1848) was herself the daughter and granddaughter of organists.

When August Wilhelm Hartmann died on 15 November 1850, the poet Hans Christian Andersen wrote a poetry for his funeral, set in music by Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann.

Hans Christian Andersen has described August Wilhelm Hartmann and his wife in his tale «The old tombstone».

The painter Frederik Vermehren has left portraits of August Wilhelm and his wife.