Heidemaria Gruber: Terribile d'aspetto; Gassmann (Betulia liberata)

[zarihueya555]

I don't understand, is this oratorio written by Mozart or by Gassmann?

[Thrax1982]

This libretto was set by not just Mozart and Gassmann but by many other composers.

Naumann and Holzbauer come to my mind but there are more.

[zarihueya555]

Thanks a lot.

[Thrax1982]

In case you're interested I posted one more aria from this work.

[zarihueya555]

I'm hearing them right now (the overtura, D'ogni colpa, Pietà, se irato sei, Te solo adoro, etc.) Again, thanx a lot. This is what we need. I love Mozart and definitely I love Glück, but we need to remember that Classicism is more than just Mozart, Glück & Haydn.

[Thrax1982]

indeed, it's more than that ;) Gassmann's Betulia was the first of the yearly oratorios of the Viennese Tonkünstler-Societät. Later examples include: Haydn's 'Il ritorno di Tobia' (1775) watch?v=nPBB9jCcBJc Salieri's 'La Passione di Gesù Cristo' (1778) watch?v=dvVo2XDKVF4 Ditterdorf's 'Giob' (1786) watch?v=mxlOX686IiI Kozeluch's 'Moise in Egitto' (1787) watch?v=xe5eGoYbrTc

[zarihueya555]

(And I'm ashamed to admit that I had no idea of the existence of Mozart's oratori. I focused on his opera plays & cantate.)

[Thrax1982]

Betulia is Mozart's only oratorio (and it was never performed in his lifetime).

[Thrax1982]

I posted Holzbauer's setting of this aria ;)