Under the title Gli impresari, The Impresarios – i.e. the directors of
the theatre troupes that Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy engaged to perform
in his opera houses – this CD gathers together some of the orchestral
works by Joseph Haydn linked by their origin and their reception; they
were originally conceived as theatre music, before their metamorphosis
into symphonies(…). The period from 1772 onwards, when Karl Wahr was
responsible for for the summer theatre programme at Esterháza, saw the
peak of the multidisciplinary collaboration taking place between the
court music directed by Haydn and companies engaged from outside. (…) At
the end of 1775 and the beginning of 1776, while Joseph Haydn was
occupied in transforming his music for Collé’s comedy into a symphony
for concert performance, Karl Wahr was enjoying enormous success with
his theatrical entertainments in the ballroom at the theatre in
Salzburg. It was there, on 3 January 1776, that Thamos, King of Egypt was staged, a heroic drama whose choruses, musicologists now believe,
were composed by none other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; for this
Salzburg performance he also composed four instrumental entractes
(recorded for this disc) as well as a melodrama and a Don Giovanni-esque
descent into hell.
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