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teleplasm
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« on: 17:09:47, 22-04-2007 »
I've just listened (on "Listen Again") to yesterday's show. Hasse's music (more popular in his day than even Handel's) emerged as the kind of 'Composing by Numbers' music satirised later in the century by Mozart in his Musical Joke. Hearing it is a valuable corrective to any temptation to doubt Handel's greatness, especially as the programme featured a breathtaking aria from Handel's Admeto, sung at the opera's premiere by Hasse's wife, Faustina Bordoni.
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richard barrett
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« Reply #1 on: 17:58:58, 30-04-2007 »
I have the impression that Hasse was a good businessman who made up in acumen what he lacked in originality, not such an uncommon occurrence. It's amazing, given the seeming drabness of his work, that he was so popular - but that must have had a lot to do with the way he wrote for particular voices (like Mrs Hasse) and what they then did with it. So perhaps it was more impressive at the time.
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« Reply #2 on: 22:56:26, 30-04-2007 »
I'm not really convinced that Hasse was the plodder he's made out to be.  DIE LISTIGE MAGD trots along very happily, and can be an amusing and unpretentious entertainment.

What surprises me more than this is how we never hear a note of Handel's London rival, Bononcini, these days?  Is his music really such tosh that it's not worth hearing?
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