Baerenreiter Verlag Orlando Paladino Hob.XXVIII:11 - Haydn - Vocal Score, Urtext Edition - Soloists, Orchestra Orlando Paladino Hob.XXVIII:11 - Haydn - Vocal Score, Urtext Edition - Soloists, Orchestra
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- Composer/Author: HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH
- Instrumentation: VOCAL SCORE
- Model # BA4663-90
Arranger: Martin Focke
Editor: Karl Geiringer
Format: Vocal Score, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Soloists, Orchestra
Language: Italian, German
On 6 December 1782, Haydn's opera "Orlando Paladino" was performed for the first time in the opera house of Eszterhaza Castle on the occasion of Prince Nicholas of Eszterhazy's name day. It was such an immediate success that twenty more performances followed in Eszterhaza before the triumphal march across European stages began with performances in more than twenty cities.
The story of the knight Roland, an (unhistorical) nephew of Charlemagne, has been a popular literary source since the time of the minstrels, and its numerous variants have been set to music just as often, among others by Lully and Handel. In his musical setting, Haydn primarily highlights the cheerful and buffonesque elements of the source and shows his artistic humour anew in every bar of the work.
The vocal score is based on volume XXV/11 of the G. Henle Complete Edition "Works of Joseph Haydn".

