Hasse, Johann Adolf.

comprising parts for soprano (2), alto (2), tenor (2), bass (2), violin I (2), viola, basso (2), organo, flute I and II, oboe I and II, horn I and II, fagotti rip., tpt I and II, principale and timpani, notated in brown ink apparently by three scribes, the great majority of the parts being in the hand of Johann Adam Hiller, some cancellations, 77 pages in all, plus blanks, of which c.62 are wholly in Hiller's hand, with a further c.5 pages containing some entries in his hand, mostly 4to (c.31.8 x 21cm), 10-, 11-, 12-, 14- and 16-stave papers, watermarks including "ICH" and fleur-de-lis, loose eighteenth-century wrapper with manuscript title ("Te Deum von Hasse"), red crayon number to upper cover of wrapper ("235"), no place or date [probably Leipzig, c.1770s-1790s], light browning, some very light damp-staining to one violin I part 

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A remarkable set of manuscript parts of one of Hasse's most celebrated works largely in the hand of his great proselytizer, the composer, writer on music and Leipzig Thomaskirche Kantor Johann Adam Hiller (1728-1804).

Hasse's 1751 Te Deum, performed for the first time at the dedication of the Dresden Hofkirche on 29 June, is the most celebrated of his various settings of the thanksgiving hymn. Numerous copies survive in various European libraries, testifying to its wide circulation. Undoubtedly one of the most remarkable of these copies (no autograph is listed for the work in TNG) is the present set of parts largely in the hand of Johan Adam Hiller. Hiller was a seminal figure in the musical life of late eighteenth-century Leipzig and held various church posts in the city in the 1770s and 1780s, including at the now vanished Paulinerkirche (the University church, where J.S. Bach also worked), culminating in the cantorship at the Thomaskirche in 1789; the present parts were doubtless used by him in one or other of the churches in which he was musical director.