Emma Hartmann née Zinn was a Danish composer who used the pseudonym Frederick H. Palmer to publish music. She was born in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, the daughter of J.Fr. Zinn, and studied singing and piano with composer Andreas Peter Berggreen

Andreas Peter Berggreen

Andreas Peter Berggreen was a Danish composer, organist, and pedagogue.Berggreen was born and died in Copenhagen. He initially studied law before pursuing a career in music, studying under Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse. Berggreen was the organist at Trinitatis Kirke in Copenhagen from 1838 and...

. She married composer J.P.E. Hartmann in 1829 and became the mother of ten children. Her song Emil Hartmann

Emil Hartmann

Emil Hartmann was a Danish composer, the eldest son of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and brother-in-law to Niels Gade. His son Oluf Hartmann was a painter....

 was also a composer, and her daughter Emma Sophie married Danish composer Niels W. Gade.

Hartmann's first published composition was music for a Student Association dance in February 1841, and her pseudonym was revealed in 1869 when the Manual of anonymity and pseudonyms in Danish literature was published. She died in Copanhagen at age 44.