Johann Adolph Hasse
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Johann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a co
Portrait of Hasse, 18th-century
Memorial to Hasse in front of his birth house in Hamburg-Bergedorf
Hasse in 1740, painted by Balthasar Denner
The grave of Hasse in the church of San Marcuola in Venice.
Pietro Metastasio
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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
Johann Adolph Hasse
…prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of opera seria and 18th-century music. Hasse was baptised in Bergedorf…
Metastasio, c. 1770 by Meytens or Batoni
Statue of Metastasio in Rome, in front of the Santa Maria in Vallicella
Opere drammatiche, oratorj sacri e poesie liriche (1737)