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Johann Adolf Hasse Requiem in C and B. Hasse-Werkausgabe IV/4

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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 Catholic Hofkirche in Dresden. With this work he composed a monument in music to his long-standing, generous employer, who was also King of Poland under the name August III: passionate choral movements, echoes of historic compositional styles, expressive vocal solos and arias which undeniably reveal Hasse the opera composer, and trumpets and timpani in the orchestra – all these are the ingredients of a “royal” Requiem Mass in the style of a Missa solemnis.

Hasse’s much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are now publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s.  Nothing is known about the occasion for which this beautiful work was composed, or even whether it was performed during the composer’s lifetime. Perhaps the Seven Years War, in which the electorate of Saxony was involved, prevented any performance. Several borrowings from it in his Requiem in C and in the later Requiem in E flat show that Hasse held the work in high regard.

The Hasse Works Edition (HWA) is published in collaboration with the Hasse-­Gesellschaft Bergedorf e. V. and is intended to serve both scholarship and the needs of performing musicians with scholarly-critical editions of Hasse’s music.

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  • Unbenanntes Dokument Booklet-Text der CD Carus 83.349 (gekürzt)

    Wolfram Hader

    Johann Adolf Hasse war im zweiten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts einer der berühmtesten Komponisten Europas. Hasse wurde 1699 in Bergedorf bei Hamburg geboren. Nach ersten Erfolgen als Sänger wandte er sich der Komposition zu und wurde in Neapel einer der letzten Schüler von Alessandro Scarlatti. 1730 heiratete er in Venedig die berühmte Sängerin Faustina Bordoni, mit der er ein Jahr später an den Dresdner Hof kam. Die Aufführung seiner Oper Cleofide wurde zum Triumph für das Ehepaar. Nach dem Tod Augusts des Starken 1733 verpflichtete sein Sohn Friedrich August II. Hasse als Kapellmeister an den Dresdner Hof.

    Während seiner dreißigjährigen Amtszeit führte Johann Adolf Hasse das dortige Musikleben zu großartiger Blüte: In ganz Europa blickte man neidvoll auf das rege kulturelle Leben und die zahlreichen musikalischen Meisterstücke, die zu Hasses Amtszeit dort zur Auf führung gelangten. Hasse genoss am Dresdner Hof einen hohen Stand; demzufolge gewährte man ihm viele Freiheiten. So konnte er sich (oft über sehr lange Zeit räume) in Italien aufhalten und dort

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  • Unbenanntes Dokument Text from the CD Carus 83.349 (abridged)

    Wolfram Hader
    Translation: Elizabeth Robinson

    Johann Adolf Hasse was one of the most famous composers in Europe in the second third of the 18th century. Hasse was born in 1699 in Bergedorf near Hamburg. After initial success as a singer, he turned to composition and became one of Alessandro Scarlatti’s last pupils in Naples. In 1730 he married the famous singer Faustina Bordoni in Venice, with whom he came to the Dresden court a year later. The performance of his opera Cleofide was a triumph for the couple. After the death of Augustus the Strong in 1733, his son Frederick Augustus II engaged Hasse as Kapellmeister at the Dresden court.

    During the thirty years in his position, he brought musical life there to a magnificent height. All of Europe looked enviously on the active cultural life and the countless musical masterpieces which were performed there during Hasse’s tenure. He enjoyed a high reputation at the Dresden court; therefore the court offered Hasse many freedoms. Thus, he was able to visit Italy (often for extended periods) and to compose and have several operas

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  • Unbenanntes Dokument Texte du CD Carus 83.349 (abrégée)

    Wolfram Hader
    Traduction: Sylvie Coquillat

    Johann Adolf Hasse fut l’un des compositeurs les plus célèbres d’Europe dans le deuxième tiers du 18ème siècle. Il naît en 1699 à Bergedorf près de Hambourg. Après de premiers succès comme chanteur, il se tourne vers la composition et il est l’un des derniers élèves d’Alessandro Scarlatti à Naples. En 1730, il épouse à Venise la célèbre cantatrice Faustina Bordoni avec laquelle il se rend à la cour de Dresde un an plus tard. La représentation de son opéra Cleofide est un triomphe pour le couple. À la mort d’Auguste le Fort en 1733, son fils Frédéric Auguste II engage Hasse comme maître de chapelle à la cour de Dresde.

    Pendant ses 30 années de service, il y amène la vie musicale à son apogée. Toute l’Europe regarde avec envie la dynamique vie culturelle et les nombreux chefs-d’œuvre musicaux qui y sont interprétés durant toute la période où Hasse est en fonction. Il jouit d’une situation privilégiée à la cour de Dresde : en conséquence, la cour de Dresde lui accorde de grandes libertés.

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