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.
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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)
