Abstract
Examines the similarities between Haydn's opera La fedeltà premiata (1780), based on a libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi, and the opera by Cimarosa L'infidelta fidele on the same libretto, composed in 1779. It is demonstrated that a feature of Haydn's later style, the choices of remote keys in individual movements of large-scale works, may have originated with Haydn's encounter with Cimarosa's work in 1780. The key plans of a number of works by Haydn and Cimarosa are compared.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Haydn and His Contemporaries |
| Editors | Sterling E. Murray |
| Publisher | Steglein Publishing |
| Pages | 39 - 55 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-9819850-2-2 |
| State | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- 77.11: Music and other arts -- Dramatic arts. Opera
- Haydn
- Joseph -- works -- La fedeltà premiata
- Hob.XXVIII: 10 -- relation to Cimarosa L'infedelità fedele
- Cimarosa
- Domenico -- works -- L'infedelità fedele -- relation to Haydn La fedeltà premiata
- libretto—by librettist -- Lorenzi
- Giambattista -- L'infedelità fedele -- set by Cimarosa and Haydn
- Lorenzi
- Giambattista -- writings -- L'infedelità fedele -- set by Cimarosa and Haydn
- tonality -- Haydn
- Joseph -- keys plans -- influenced by Cimarosa L'infedelità fedele -- 1780
- tonality -- Cimarosa
- Domenico -- L'infedelità fedele -- keys plans -- influence on Haydn