Wolfgang Hochstein

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the solemn exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Co...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

The Missa in B flat major by Joseph Haydn presented here has gone down in music history under the nickname "Theresienmesse". The reason for this name is unclear, but could be related to the performanc...

The festive composition with its large orchestration for the time was performed for the first time on June 29, 1751 on the occasion of the consecration of the new Catholic Court Church in Dresden.

Venetian version The Laudate pueri was composed between 1735 and 1749 for the Ospedale degl'Incurabili in Venice. As this was a musical training center for talented girls and young women, the vocal pa...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C major for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Friedrich August II in November 1763 in the...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

Ungeachtet der Tatsache, dass man Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini heute kaum mehr kennt, genoss dieser in den Jahren um 1760/85 ein unbestritten hohes Ansehen als eine führende Komponistenpersönlichkei...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

Revised version by the Gustav MahlerGesellschaft, Vienna

Schriftenreihe der Hasse-Gesellschaften in Hamburg-Bergedorf und München. Hasse-Studien, Sonderreihe, Band 2 Untersuchung der Entstehungsgeschichte Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783) gilt als der erfolgre...

Inhalt: Ortrun Landmann [Dresden]: Hassiana im Sächsischen Staatsarchiv zu Dresden Alina Zórawska-Witkowska [Warschau]: Johann Adolf Hasse und die Musik am polnischen Hof Augusts III. [1734-176...

Inhalt: - Reinhard Wiesend: Beginnen und Schließen in Hasses Oper Cleofide - Raffaele Mellace: Metastasio und Hasse, ossia Wer war Hasse für Metastasio? - Alina Zórawska-Witkowska: Endimione. Eine War...