- Casini, Claudio. “Tre Manon.” Chigiana,n.s., 8 (1972): 171–217.
Compares the settings by Auber, Massenet, and Puccini, concentrating on the
first two. Cites the Wagnerian elements in Puccini’s version. - Longyear, Rey Morgan. “D. F. E. Auber: A Chapter in the History of the
Opéra-comique,1800–1878.” Ph.D. diss., Cornell U., 1957. 439p. - Longyear, Rey Morgan. “La muette de Portici.” MQ19 (1958): 37–46.
Historical background for the story, plot and program notes, reception.
See also Pendle (#2299).
Jacques Auber (1689–1753)
La reine des Périsis in FO,v.35.
Pietro Auletta (1698–1771)
- Walker, Frank. “Orazio: The History of a Pasticcio.” MQ38 (1952): 369–
- (Reprinted in GL,v.11.)
Disposes of earlier accounts of the performance history and establishes its pre-
miere at Naples, 1737. It was revived anonymously in Florence in 1740 and in
1742, then in Venice in 1743 with a misattribution to Pergolesi. Further
revivals and variants—which preserved little of the Auletta original—are
scrupulously traced and compared. Walker concludes that “in the earlier part
of the 18th century after an opera buffahad been in circulation for a few years
nobody was at all sure whose it was, and only a fraction of the original music
was left.”
Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
469.Johann Christian Bach, 1735–1782. The Collected Works.Ed. Ernest Warbur-
ton. New York: Garland, 1989–1990. ISBN 0-8240-6050-4 (v.1; then consec-
utively). 48v. M3 .B119.
Facsimiles of 18th-century sources and new manuscript scores based on the
best-available sources, without extensive critical comments. Informative intro-
ductions consider sources, genesis, and approach to textual problems. The
final volume is a new thematic catalogue. These are the volumes with operatic
material: v.1, Artaterse;v.2, Catone in Utica;v.3, Alessandro nell’Indie;v.4,
Orione;v.5, Adriano in Siria;v.6, Carattaco;v.7, Temistocle;v.8, Lucio Silla;
v.9, La clemenza di Scipione;v.10, Amadis de Gaule,and Gluck’s Orfeo
arranged by J. C. Bach; v.12, Single arias and overtures; v.14, Endimione;v.15,
Amor vincitore;v.16, Gioas, re di Giuda;v.43–47, libretti.- Downes, Edward O. D. “The Operas of Johann Christian Bach as a Reflection
of the Dominant Trends in opera seria,1750–1780.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard U., - 1,145p.
- Terry, Charles Sanford. Johann Christian Bach. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford U.P.,
- lv, 373p. Reprint, with new foreword by H. C. Robbins Landon, West-
port, Conn.: Greenwood, 1980.
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