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SKU: CA.5070800
ISBN 9790007245689.
Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C major for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Friedrich August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Hofkirche in Dresden. With this work he composed a monument in music to his long-standing, generous employer, who was also King of Poland under the name August III: passionate choral movements, echoes of historic compositional styles, expressive vocal solos and arias which undeniably reveal Hasse the opera composer, and trumpets and timpani in the orchestra - all these are the ingredients of a royal Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnis.Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are now publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for which this beautiful work was composed, or even whether it was performed during the composer's lifetime. Perhaps the Seven Years War, in which the electorate of Saxony was involved, prevented any performance. Several borrowings from it in his Requiem in C and in the later Requiem in E flat show that Hasse held the work in high regard.The Hasse Works Edition (HWA) is published in collaboration with the Hasse-Gesellschaft Bergedorf e. V. and is intended to serve both scholarship and the needs of performing musicians with scholarly-critical editions of Hasse's music.
SKU: CA.5075113
ISBN 9790007248253. Key: C major. Latin.
Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Hofkirche in Dresden. With this work, he composed a monument in music to his long-standing, generous employer, who was also King of Poland under the name August III: passionate choral movements, echoes of historic compositional styles, expressive vocal solos and arias undeniably revealing Hasse the opera composer, plus trumpets and timpani in the orchestra - all these are the ingredients of a royal Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnis. - First edition- Passionate choral movements of medium difficulty- Expressive vocal soli- Royal Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnisAdditional program suggestion: Miserere in C minor by Hasse (Carus 40.961).
SKU: CA.5075119
ISBN 9790007248277. Key: C major. Latin.
SKU: CA.5075112
ISBN 9790007248246. Key: C major. Latin.
SKU: CA.5075100
ISBN 9790007252953. Key: C major. Latin.
SKU: CA.5075114
ISBN 9790007248260. Key: C major. Latin.
SKU: CA.5075111
ISBN 9790007248239. Key: C major. Latin.
SKU: CA.5075109
ISBN 9790007248222. Key: C major. Latin.
SKU: CA.5075103
ISBN 9790007248314. Key: C major. Latin.
SKU: HL.49020852
ISBN 9783254001948. 5.75x8.75x1.219 inches. German.
Hermann Levi war ein Dirigent, der sich mit uneingeschrankter Hingabe fur die Werke der beiden Antipoden der zweiten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts einsetzte: Johannes Brahms und, nach dem Zerwurfnis mit ihm, Richard Wagner. Wenig bekannt ist, dass Levi Talent zum Komponieren besass und sich als Ubersetzer von Libretti beispielsweise einiger Opern Mozarts auszeichnete. Stand er als schopferischer Kunstler im Spannungsfeld um Brahms und Wagner, so litt er als Jude unter dem seit den 80er Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts zunehmenden Druck der Gesellschaft. Dennoch gab er diesem Druck nicht nach und trat nicht wie viele Personlichkeiten vor ihm zum Christentum uber, auch nicht nach der Heirat mit einer Christin. Er litt unendlich unter seinem Judentum und kam erst zur Ruhe, als er nach seinem Ruckzug aus der Offentlichkeit Trost in den Schriften Goethes und Schopenhauers fand.Ein Buch, das nicht nur die Kunstlerpersonlichkeit Levi aufzeigt, sondern auch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhange wirft - eine anschauliche Darstellung.
