Johann Adolf Hasse
![Titre uniforme: Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783). Compositeur. [Demofoonte] Dramma per musica en trois actes. - Livret de Pietro Metastasio. - 1re représentation: Dresde, Hoftheater, 9 février 1748; révision: Naples, Théâtre San Carlo, 4 novembre 1758. - Il s'agit de la version de Dresde, ne contient pas la Marcia de la scène 5 du premier acte.. -](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Demofoonte_-_Del_Sig-_Gio-_Adol-_Hasse_-_detto_il_Sassone._-_btv1b108768328_%28009_of_522%29.jpg/1280px-Demofoonte_-_Del_Sig-_Gio-_Adol-_Hasse_-_detto_il_Sassone._-_btv1b108768328_%28009_of_522%29.jpg)
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783). Compositeur · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1699 · Bergedorf.
- Died
- 1783 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Holy Roman Empire
- Occupation
- composer · singer · music educator · chapelmaster · independent publisher · conductor
- Fields
- classical music
- Movements
- Baroque music · Classical period
- Teachers
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Known for
- Artemisia
- Languages
- German · Italian
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Training under Alessandro Scarlatti is recorded. Jan Antonín Koželuh is recorded as having studied under Johann Adolf Hasse. The recorded working language is German and Italian. The field of work recorded is classical music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera, church music, concerto and chamber music. Positions recorded include chapelmaster. Works named in the authority record are Artemisia.
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Titre uniforme: Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783). Compositeur. [Te Deum. Voix (4), choeur, orchestre. Sol majeur] Le titre en partie au crayon. - Pagination en partie ajoutée Présentation musicale: Partition
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783). Compositeur · Bibliothèque nationale de France
Johann Adolf Hasse, German Composer 1699-1783
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1699
Johann Adolf Hasse born at Bergedorf.
1783
Johann Adolf Hasse died at Venice.
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Bergedorf.
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Venice.
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- MusicBrainz artist record for Johann Adolf Hasse
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q164732: Johann Adolf Hasse
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- 1.Wolfgang Hochstein. Johann Adolf, Johann Adolph, Giovanni Adolfo. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
- 2.Reference for this section: harvnb, Hansell, 2001, loc=§1 "Early years: Germany, Naples and Venice"
- 3.Johann Adolph Hasse Museum. KomponistenQuartier.
- 4.Boyd, Malcolm. Bach. Oxford University Press. 165. 2000. 978-0-195-14222-8.
- 5.Reference for this section: , and harvnb, Hansell, 2001, loc=§3 "Dresden and Venice, 1734–44"
- 6.Reference for this section: harvnb, Hansell, 2001, loc=§5 "The final Dresden period, 1744–63"
- 7.Kennedy, Michael; Bourne, Joyce: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- 8.Burney, Charles. The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces. T. Becket and Co. 1773.
- 9.Reference for this section: harvnb, Hansell, 2001, loc=§6 "Last years"
- 10.Reference for this section: harvnb, Hansell, 2001, loc=§4 "Hasse and Metastasio"
- 11.Reference for this section: harvnb, Hansell, 2001, loc=§7 "Musical style and reputation"
- 12.Lange Nacht der Museen Hamburg, Johann Adolf Hasse Museum
Bibliography printed in the source article · 11
- Francesco Degrada: "Aspetti gluckiani nell'ultimo Hasse", Chigiana, xxix–xxx (1975), 309–329
- S. Hansell: "Sacred Music at the Incurabili in Venice at the Time of J. A. Hasse", Journal of the American Musicological Society, xxiii (1970), 282–301, 505–521
- D. Heartz: "Hasse, Galuppi and Metastasio", Venezia e il melodramma nel settecento: Venice 1973–5, i, 309–339
- F. L. Millner: "Hasse and London's Opera of the Nobility", Music Records, xxxv (1974), 240–246
- Frederick L. Millner: The Operas of Johann Adolf Hasse. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1979 (Studies in Musicology, 2).
- Smither, Howard E.: A History of the Oratorio. University of North Carolina Press, 1977
- Reinhard Strohm: Essays on Handel and Italian Opera (Cambridge, 1985)
- Imme Tempke: "Mozart und der 'Musick-Vatter' Hasse". In: Nr. 71. Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, (2006). .
- Imme Tempke: "Hasses Musikausbildung in Hamburg". In: Lichtwark-Heft Nr. 67. Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, (2002). .
- Robert Torre: "Operatic Twins & Musical Rivals: Two Settings of Artaserse (1730)", Discourses in Music, vol. 6, no. 1, (Summer 2006).
- Alan Yorke-Long: Music at Court: Four Eighteenth-century Studies, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954)
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