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...want to hear good opera," the Empress Maria Theresa-once remarked, "I must go to Eszterháza." Such was the fame of Joseph Haydn's musical establishment at the country palace of his patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, that even crowned heads journeyed from Vienna to rural Hungary to hear his operas. Yet today the two dozen or so operas by one of music's most important, beloved figures are the least known of his major works. It is an undeserved obscurity...
...Haydn's 250th birthday is celebrated this week, there are signs that his operas' long spell on the shelf is nearing an end. Through the dedicated efforts of scholars like the indefatigable H.C. Robbins Landon and institutions like the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne, many previously unpublished operas have been carefully edited and issued in critical editions. Eight have been recorded by Conductor Antal Dorati for Philips records...
Emmanuel Music--John McCabe, plainst; music of Haydn, Mozart, McCabe et al.; Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston...
...Concert--Jane Daniel and Sue Demb, violas; music of Bach, Hindemith and Haydn; New School of Music, 25 Lowell...
...Haydn Trios--Mowry Pearson, violin, Dragana Bajalovic, piano, and Richard Hardtshorne, bass; Peasant Stock Restaurant, 415 Washington St., Somerville...