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Die Opera seria bei Joseph Haydn: Studien zu Form und Struktur musikalischer Affektdramaturgie und Figurentypologisierung in Armida und L'anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice.

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Die Opera seria bei Joseph Haydn: Studien zu Form und Struktur musikalischer Affektdramaturgie und Figurentypologisierung in Armida und L'anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice. By Bernhard Waritschlager. (Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften der Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Munchen, Bd. 2.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2005. [226 p. ISBN 3-7952-1192-1. [euro]52.] Music examples, indexes, bibliography.

Based on the author's 2005 dissertation from the University of Munich, this book concentrates on Haydn's last two operas--the dramma eroico Armida from 1783-84, his final work for the Esterhazy stage, and the dramma per musica L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice written for London in 1791 but never performed in the composer's lifetime. (Discussed only briefly is L'isola disabitata, the two-act azione teatrale from 1779 on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which is not yet available in the Joseph Haydn Werke, and the fragmentary Acide from 1763 (revised 1774) written before the composer's musical and dramatic potential was fully realized.) As such, this book fills in an analytical hole left by other detailed studies of the composer's operas, although its outdated methodology gives one pause.

Simply put, each...