Editing Karl Amadeus Hartmann (section)

==Reputation and legacy==
Significantly, {{clarify span|text=no major West German conductor|explain=Leitner not "major"?|date=March 2014}} championed his music following his death: Scherchen, his most noted advocate, died in 1966. Some have suggested that this accelerated the disappearance of Hartmann's music from public view in the years following his death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/050127-NL-hartmann.html|title = Karl Amadeus Hartmann - One Good German}}</ref> Conductors who regularly performed Hartmann's music include [[Rafael Kubelik]] and [[Ferdinand Leitner]], who recorded the third and sixth symphonies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bruceduffie.com/leitner.html|title=Ferdinand Leitner Interview with Bruce Duffie . . . . ..}}</ref> More recent champions of works by Hartmann include [[Ingo Metzmacher]] and [[Mariss Jansons]].

Hans Werner Henze said of Hartmann's music: 
<blockquote>Symphonic architecture was essential for him... as a suitable medium for reflecting the world as he experienced and understood it – as an agonizingly dramatic battle, as contradiction and conflict – in order to be able to achieve self-realization in its dialectic and to portray himself as a man among men, a man of this world, and not out of this world.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110616182007/http://www.schott-music.com/shop/resources/643375.pdf Hartmann discography – PDF from Schott Music]</ref></blockquote>

The English composer [[John McCabe (composer)|John McCabe]] wrote his ''Variations on a Theme of Karl Amadeus Hartmann'' (1964) in tribute. It uses the opening of Hartmann's Fourth Symphony as its theme. Henze made a version of Hartmann's Piano Sonata No. 2 for full orchestra.