I roto i ona hoa taitamariki i reira i Karl Henckel, Arthur Gutheil me te kairangahau me te kaitōrangapū Alfred Hugenberg, a ka whakaputaina e ratou he rōrahi o te waiata Quartett i 1886. I muri i te whakaoti i tana kura i Celle i 1886 haere ia ki te ako ture, tuatahi i roto i te Leipzig, i reira i mohio ia Hermann Conradi ko Adolf Bartels, a muri i roto i Berlin. ako ia mo te mahi tūmatanui i Stolberg (Harz) me i Magdeburg. hoatu ake ana akoranga ture, hoki ia ki Berlin, i reira ia i rite ki te kaituhi freelance, te mutunga neke ki Munich i roto i 1901. i muri i te matenga o tona tupuna i roto i 1893, Hartleben riro 80,000 tohu, me te i ora i runga i 2 Hakihea marena tona hoa ora-roa, ex-whakapono Hesse Hesse.
Ko te tau 1893