Scena Del Sigr. Sassone ... Misera qual torrente ... Tortorella abbandonata. [From the opera Achille in Sciro]. [Copyist musical manuscript]
Italy: ca. 1759.
Oblong quarto (220 x 277 mm). Sewn. Copyist manuscript notated in black ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. 47, [i] (blank) pp.
Scored for soprano (Deidamia), strings, and basso continuo (mostly unfigured); excerpted from Scene II, Act 13 of Achille in Sciro. The aria Tortorella abbandonata is preceded by an accompanied recitative, Misera qual torrente.
Minor to moderate soiling to first page, mainly to blank margins; minor soiling and small stains to final blank page; occasional minor soiling to outer edges.
Achille in Sciro, to libretto by Metastasio, premiered in Naples at the Teatro S Carlo on 4 November 1759.
"For several decades {Hasse] was the most widely admired composer of opera seria in Italy and German-speaking lands. His finest operas, written between the mid-1720s and the late 1760s, represent a highly systematized, rational style; they were handsomely produced and sung at leading theatres. Festival operas and vocal chamber works were composed for weddings and similar occasions at the Habsburg court in Vienna during the 1760s, by which time Hasse had come to be associated stylistically with the librettist Metastasio. Qualities described today as neo-classical also pervade his Dresden oratorios, his Venetian sacred works, and his later flute music probably for Berlin; much of his music exhibits dramatic effects of harmony, orchestration, and vocal line. He was able to compose at great speed, and his skill at adjusting to the voice of each singer was highly prized. Bel canto was for him always the sine qua non of great music, and to the beautiful display of the human voice all else was subordinated." Sven Hansell in Grove Music Online.
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