SKU: CA.9001400
ISBN 9790007089689. Language: German.
A publication of the Hasse Society in Hamburg-Bergdorf and Munich.
SKU: CA.9001000
ISBN 9790007108236. Language: German.
SKU: CA.9001300
ISBN 9790007108267. Language: German.
SKU: CA.9001100
ISBN 9790007108243. Language: German.
SKU: CA.9001600
ISBN 9790007111106. Language: German.
SKU: CA.9001800
Language: German.
SKU: CA.9001700
ISBN 9790007130046. Language: German.
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783) is considered the most successful composer from the middle third of the 18th century. He spent the most important and longest portion of his professional musical career as Music Director at the Dresden Court of Friedrich August II. The fact that Hasse was offered this prestigious position was due to the success of his opera Cleofide, which was performed in Dresden in September 1731 - still during the reign of August the Strong - with his wife, Faustina (nee Bordoni), singing the female lead. In connection with the first edition of Cleofide (Johann Adolf Hasse, Werke, Vol. I/1, Stuttgart, 2008) the editor, Zenon Mojzysz, undertook extensive research of the cultural-historical environment surrounding this opera. With reference to numerous original sources, in the present volume the circumstances which led to the composer's appointment at the Dresden Court and to the performance there of Cleofide will be brought to light.
SKU: CA.9002000
Language: German/Italian.
Franz Sales Kandler (1792-1831), an enthusiastic Viennese music scholar, wrote the essay Cenni storico-critici in memory and in honor of the composer Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783). In this, he recommended Hasse - who was outstandingly successful in his day - to younger generations of composers as a role model, despite the social and stylistic changes which had taken place in the intervening years. The original Italian text is published here for the first time with a German translation.
