Talk:Johann Adolph Hasse
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Unfortunately, the Hasse article contains numerous statements now known to be incorrect: Hasse did not meet Keiser, though he highly valued Keiser's musical style; in Hamburg, Hasse was with Mattheson while Keiser was away from Hamburg; Faustina Bordoni was born in 1697 and died in Venice 1781; the date Hasse and Faustina met is not known; Faustina retired from the stage in 1751; Hasse was never in London; Hasse's Dresden manuscripts were largely saved from the Prussian bombing and survive in the Milan "Verdi" conservatory; nothing had been published as yet in Dresden by the time the Seven years' war started; Hasse was greatly admired by Bach, Haydn, Mozart; his contemporaries adored him as Padre della musica; there are good examples of drama in his music (in operas just as in oratorios); Hasse's instrumentation was very respectful of the singing voice (he was a tenor in his young days, singing the lead in his own first opera); calling it "low level" is entirely unjustified; Hasse enjoyed a lifelong mutual friendship with Metastasio (he set to music all but one of Metastasio's opera libretti) and with Farinelli (who made Hasse's music known to the London public); as to the periods of time Hasse spent in Dresden, Warsaw, Vienna and on travel in Italy (many times Venice, where the Hasse's kept a secondary residence while in Dresden or Vienna), consult the new article in the second edition of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart; the allegations of Faustina being involved with the Saxon elector are unproven, such an involvement would have been rather unlikely with Augustus III.
[edit] Source?
From the style of this article, it seems to have been written about a century ago. I find it hard to believe that any wikipedia-user wrote it. What is its source?--Gheuf 06:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
In particular I am referring to the last paragraph. --Gheuf 06:59, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Quite right! I just googled the text and large chunks of it appear to be taken verbatim from the 1911 Britannica. I've just added the following to the references: This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
Voceditenore 10:16, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List of Works? Deleted?
The substantial list of works all seem to have been removed. Was this by mistake? Were there mistakes in it? I'm a bit puzzled. -- Kleinzach 14:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
- No mistakes AFAIK. I'm planning to go back to that and put it all in a separate article, similar to List of musical compositions by Arthur Sullivan. FYI, a complete rewrite is underway at Talk:Johann Adolph Hasse/Rewrite. Cheers, Moreschi Talk 23:24, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
- I've now made a new page: List of compositions by Johann Adolph Hasse. 'Musical' compositions is not used except apparently for Sullivan . . . . -- Kleinzach (talk) 09:50, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
