Franz Joseph Haydn
Born: Rohrau (Austria), 31 March 1732
Died: Vienna, 31 May 1809
Operas
The dates and locations are those of the premieres; when there was a
substantial delay between composition and performance, the approximate
year of composition is also given. Hoboken catalogue numbers are given.
- Der krumme Teufel [XXIXb:1a] (29.5.1753, Vienna)
[lost]
- Der neue krumme Teufel [XXIXb:1b] (1758)
[prob rev of Der krumme Teufel; music lost]
- Acide [XXVIII:1] (11.1.1763, Eisenstadt) [score incomplete]
- La marchesa nespola [XXX:1] (1763?) [score partly lost;
libretto lost]
- La canterina [XXVIII:2] (11.9.1766?, Bratislava)
- Lo speziale [XXVIII:3] (1768, Esterháza) [partly lost]
- Le pescatrici [XXVIII:4] (16.9.1770?, Esterháza)
- L'infedeltà delusa [XXVIII:5] (26.7.1773, Esterháza)
- Acide [rev] (1773; NP) [fragment]
- L'incontro improvviso [XXVIII:6] (29.8.1775, Esterháza)
- Il mondo della luna [XXVIII:7] (3.8.1777, Esterháza)
- La vera costanza [XXVIII:8] (25.4.1779, Esterháza) [original version lost; recreated by composer et al. 1785;
also performed as Der flatterhafte Liebhaber,
Der Sieg der Beständigkeit, Die wahre Beständigkeit,
List und Liebe, and Laurette]
- L'isola disabitata [XXVIII:9] (6.12.1779, Esterháza)
- La fedeltà premiata [XXVIII:10] (25.2.1781, Esterháza)
- Orlando Paladino [XXVIII:11] (6.12.1782, Esterháza)
- Armida [XXVIII:12] (26.2.1784, Esterháza)
- L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice [XXVIII:13]
(1791; 9.5.1951, Florence)
Marionette Operas
- Philemon und Baucis, oder Jupiters Reise auf die Erde
[XXIXa:1] (2.9.1773, Esterháza) [included a prologue,
Der Götterrat, Hob. XXIXa:1a; most music of original version
lost; survives in Singspiel arrangement]
- Die bestrafte Rachgebierde [XXIXb:3] () [music lost]
- Die Feuersbrunst, oder Das abgebrannte Haus [XXIXb:A] (1775?)
[libretto lost]
- Dido [XXIXa:3] () [music lost]
- Genovevens vierter Theil [XXIXa:5] () [music lost]
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