A journal issue devoted to 19 papers from a colloquium in Siena, 1983. Nine
of the contributions relate to opera. These are the most useful: Martin
Ruhnke, “Zum Rezitativ der opera seriavor Hasse”; Reinhard Wiesend,
“Tonartendisposition und Rollenhierarchie in Hasses Opern”; and Gordana
Lazarevich, “Hasse as a Comic Dramatist: The Neapolitan Intermezzi.”
1003.Hasse-Studien,1–, 1990–. Hamburg: Carus, 1990–. ML410 .H35 H38.
V.3, 1996, is the last one seen. A view of “Hasses Opern und die Gegenwart,”
by Reinhard Wiesend, is in v.1, 7–12. The article’s footnotes cite the major
Hasse literature and editions. A facsimile of the Piramo e Tisbe (it is spelled
Thisbeon the title page) libretto (Vienna, 1768) is printed in v.3, along with
two brief articles about the opera.See also next entry.
- Degrada, Francesco. “Aspetti gluckiani nell’ultimo Hasse.” Chigiana29/30
(1975): 309–329. German translation as “Glucksche Aspekte in einem
Spätwerk Hasses,” Hasse-Studien3 (1996): 5–23.
Piramo e Tisbewas a traditional Italian opera in its conception and structure,
but it showed “progressive” elements as well—for example, the use of accom-
panied recitative as a means to continuity. - Williams, David Richard. “Johann Adolf Hasse’s Attilio Regolo.” D.M.A.
diss., U. of Wisconsin, 1995. 614p.
1006.Johann Adolf Hasse e Giammaria Ortes, lettere (1760–1783).Ed. Livia Pan-
cino. Brescia: Brepols, 1998. xv, 472p. ISBN 2-503-50705-0. ML410 .H35 A4.
In this interesting correspondence, Hasse provides much information about
Venetian life, personalities, and opera. He talks about works he is composing
and comments on Gluck and the reformists (he was not one of them). Good
bibliography of some 300 entries, index. - Heartz, Daniel. “Hasse, Galuppi, and Metastasio.” In Muraro (#2576), v.1,
309–340.
Metastasio’s libretto of Artatersewas set by Hasse (1730); the opera is ana-
lyzed by Heartz, with comments by contemporaries. The poet objected to lib-
erties taken in a later setting, by Galuppi (1749). Charles Burney’s comments
on that dispute are given.
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Editions
- Haydn, Joseph. Werke. Ed. Georg Feder, for the Joseph-Haydn-Institut Köln.
Munich: Henle, 1958–.
Reihe25 has the operas. They are published here without significant introduc-
tions or scholarly apparatus.
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