HASSE, GIOV. Adol.

HASSE, GIOV. Adol.

HASSE, Johann Adolf (b Bergedorf nr Hamburg 1699–d Venice 1783), Messe per li Defonti: No 1, I/H/27/1

Mus. 2477-D-509

HASSE, GIOV. Adol.

HASSE, Johann Adolf (b Bergedorf nr Hamburg 1699–d Venice 1783)

Messe per li Defonti: No 1

Schranck I; Fach 27; Lage 1

I/H/27/1

‘a 4 voci co’ VVni, Vla, Flauti e Corni’

Parti

Messe per il Defonti No. 1

Requiems

1763–4 (Mus. 2477-D-5a)

Mus. 2477-D-509: Bound folder with two parts for Alto Imo, and Alto R of the Messe per il Defonti No. 1.
1. The solo alto (‘Alto Imo’) part of the Requiem and Sanctus is bound into the folder. The accompanying bass line is given for the solo passages (eg. the Christe eleison). Several additions are notated, especially to the ‘Lachrymosa’. At the conclusion ‘Agnus Intonatio Tacet poi si replica Requiem e finisce.’ is written.
2. A part for ‘Alto R’ of the Requiem and Sanctus. The remaining performance parts are missing from Dresden.
In the later, undated ‘Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa composta di Giov: Adolfo Hasse’, score and parts are listed (Fach 7; Lage 1). There, the scoring is given as ‘à 4 voci co’ VVni. Oboi, Flauti, Corni, Viola ed Organo’. This work was composed for the funeral exequies of Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian who died on 17 December 1763. The Catalogo (1765) entries of the two ‘Messa per li Defonti’ by Hasse (each listed as parts only) have this margin remark: ‘Die Partituren hirvon habe Sr Königs Hoheit Churfürstin.’ (the scores hereof [are in the possession of] Her Royal Highness, the Electress), a reference to the widow, Maria Antonia Walpurgis (1724–1780).
Dresden score sources of Messe per li Defonti:
No. 1 (E flat) by Hasse are held by SLUB: Mus. 2477-D-5: Part-autogr. bound score (damaged).
Spine: Requiem von Hasse. No cover title. Stamp of the Bibliotheca Musica Regia.
Title page: Requiem, Kyrie | Dies irae | Sanctus, et Agnus | di Giov. Adolfo Hasse | detto il Sassone, | Imo Maestro di Capella | Della Regia Elettoral | Corte di Dresda. At the conclusion of this damaged score is the remark: ‘Poi si replica Requiem e finisce’. This score was prepared for Electress Maria Antonia Walpurgis from the original (Mus. 2477-D-5a).
Two Requiem masses by Hasse are listed in the music catalogue of August III; three are entered in the catalogue of Friedrich August III. RISM ID no. 270000401.
Mus. 2477-D-5a: Part-autogr. bound score. Cover title: Requiem | [?] Corni | Organo e tutti Bassi | di | Hasse | (pencil VI 4,1). Front page in red pencil [F. A. Schubert?]: ‘N.B. von 17 Dec. bis 3 Janu. .’. Below in black pencil: ‘. . . li 17 Dec. bis 2 Ja .’. Title page: Requiem, Kyrie | Dies irae | Sanctus, et Agnus. | di Giov. Adolfo Hasse | detto il Sassone, | Primo Maestro di Capella | della Regia Elettoral | Corte di Dresda.
At the conclusion of the score is the remark: ‘Poi si replica Requiem e finisce’.
On the box containing the score [in pencil]: Prov. Hofkirche. RISM ID no. 270000402.
On Hasse’s works held in SLUB, see Landmann, Katalog der Dresdner Hasse Musikhandschriften.

Mus. 2477-D-509: Sachs. Landes-Bibl.

V. 5 (1901), 87: Hasse, Johann Adolph [...] Requiem in C. u. Es. [Dresd. Mus.

Mus. 2477-D-509: [Hasse, Johann Adolf] [Requiem. Es dur]. 2 Stimmen: A 1 (Solostellen mit unterlegtem b), A rip. Ms., Mitte 18 Jh., Dresden. S. Partitur Mus. 2477-D-5a u. -D-5. Vormals: Kath. Hofkirche. Mus. 2477-D-5a: Hasse, Giov. Adolfo: Requiem, Kyrie, Dies irae, Sanctus et Agnus col VVni, Viola, Fl., Ob. Corni, Organo e tutti Bassi [und 4 Stimmen]. Es-Dur 6/8. Part. 1 Bd. qu. 4to. Mus.-Mscr. Kath Hofkirche

Except from the solo alto, and alto ripieno, performance materials are held. The remaining parts were not catalogued by SLB and are missing from Dresden; score copies of Messe per li Defonti: Nr. 1 by Hasse (Mus. 2477-D-5 and -D-5a) held by SLUB.

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