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[[Johann Adolph Hasse]] (Italianized Giovanni Adolfo; baptized March 25, 1699, in Bergedorf; † December 16, 1783, in Venice) was an influential German composer of the late Baroque period. His fame during his lifetime was based mainly on his operas in the Italian style. | [[Johann Adolph Hasse]] (Italianized Giovanni Adolfo; baptized March 25, 1699, in Bergedorf; † December 16, 1783, in Venice) was an influential German composer of the late Baroque period. His fame during his lifetime was based mainly on his operas in the Italian style. | ||
Hasse started out as a singer, becoming a tenor at the ''Theater am Gänsemarkt'' in Hamburg. At the same time, he had first successes as a composer, and after he went from Hamburg to Braunschweig in 1721, his first opera ''Antiocco'' had its premiere there. Wanting to expand and experience more than the north of Germany had to offer at the time, he went to Italy, where he was a student with [[Nicola Antonio Porpora]] and [[Alessandro Scarlatti]]. | |||
Many of Hasse's operas (like ''[[Artaserse]]'') use libretti by [[Pietro Metastasio]], who particularly liked Hasse's way to treat his text.<ref name="Wiki"/> | |||
His operas were vastly successful - in Naples as well as back home in Germany, where he became ''Hofkapellmeister'' (maestro of the royal chapel) in Dresden, a position that he held for thirty years. | |||
Even Johann Sebastian Bach used to listen to Hasse's operas in Dresden, quoted to say he went there for some light entertainment, {{lang|de|„hübsche Liederchen"}} ("pretty ditties") how he put it, not without a pinch of irony. | |||
With the beginning of the Seven Years' war, Hasse's era in Dresden came to an end. Friedrich II of Prussia occupied the city. Despite the war, Friedrich used every opportunity to meet Hasse to make music together. | |||
Nonetheless, in 1760, the cannons set Hasse's house on fire, turning into ashes the copies of his collected works that had been prepared for engraving. The family went to Vienna where he temporarily worked as a music teacher for the Archduchesses Maria Carolina and Maria Antonia (the later Marie Antoinette). | |||
After the war, they returned to Dreseden. However, King August III died, and the land was financially ruined by the past years' ceaseless warfare, forcing Hasse to leave, and returning to Vienna once more. There, the popular taste had changed, and with ''Piramo e Tisbe'', Hasse tried to make concessions to the style shaped by modern composers like [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]]. | |||
In January 1771, Hasse was commissioned by Maria Theresa to write the festive opera Il Ruggiero to a new libretto by Metastasio on the occasion of the wedding of Archduke Ferdinand to Princess Maria Beatrice d'Este. Both Hasse and Metastasio concluded their life's work with this opera. It was performed at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan on October 16, 1771. As their letters tell, both artists realized that the time of the opera aesthetic they had cultivated, from which they did not want to part, was over. Much greater attention was attracted by the opera ''[[Ascanio in Alba]]'' by the fifteen-year-old [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], performed the following day. Hasse is said to have said in response, ''"Dieser Knabe wird uns alle vergessen machen."'' – "This boy will cause us all to be forgotten." | |||
In April 1773, the Hasse couple moved to Venice to spend the rest of their lives there. Faustina Bordoni died on November 4, 1781; her husband survived her by two years. They found their final resting place in the church of San Marcuola in Venice. ''(Abbridged and translated from German Wikipedia)''<ref name="Wiki"/> | |||
==Johann Adolph Hasse in Philippe Jaroussky's discography, filmography and performance history== | ==Johann Adolph Hasse in Philippe Jaroussky's discography, filmography and performance history== | ||
===Studio albums=== | ===Studio albums=== | ||