"The history of music is not simply the history of masterpieces… Posterity is not always fair and can be fickle, and our keenest hope is that the curiosity of the reader will be attracted to a number of works that merit more than a passing reference in music history." – Vincent Giroud
Johann Adolph Hasse
Born: near Hamburg, Germany, 25 March 1699
Died: Venice, Italy, 16 December 1783
Operas
Antioco (1721; incompletely preserved)
Antonio e Cleopatra (1725)
Il Sesostrate (1726)
La Semele, o sia La richiesta fatale (1726)
L’Astarto (1726)
Gerone tiranno di Siracusa (1727)
Enea in Caonia (1727)
Attalo, re di Bitinia (1728)
L’Ulderica (1729; incompletely preserved)
La sorella amante (1729)
Tigrane (1729)
L’Erminia (1729)
Artaserse (1730; revised 1740 and 1760)
Dalisa (1730; incompletely preserved)
Arminio (1730; incompletely preserved)
Ezio (1730; revised 1755)
Cleofide (1731)
Catone in Utica (1731; incompletely preserved)
Cajo Fabricio (1732; revised 1734)
Demetrio (1732; revised 1740)
Euristeo (1732)
Issipile (1732)
Siroe, re di Persia (1733; revised 1763)
Sei tu, Lidippe, o il sole (1734)
Tito Vespasiano (La clemenza di Tito) (1735; revised 1738 and 1759)