Add MS 32664

Dramatic compositions, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, strings, etc., in score, by Franz Joseph Haydn, copied from the originals at Eszterház and Eisenstadt.

1. Four 'Arie per la com[m]edia' [Il] Marchese,' '[1]763, viz.:— (a) 'Navicella da vento agitata.' f. 1; — (b) 'Tu mi piaci.' f. 4;— (c) 'Trema, Tyrran (sic) regnante.' f. 7; — and (d) 'Non [h]o genio.' f. 16. K. F. Pohl, in his Joseph Haydn, vol. i, pp. 231, 232, appears to consider 'Il Marchese' the same as 'La Marchesa Nepola,' but it is more probably the play mentioned in the same passage as 'Il Sganarello,' which was composed in 1762. Characters: Santa Barbara, Colombina, Leopoldo and Scanarello (sic), etc. ff. 1-18.

2. 'La Canterina': Opera Buffa Intermezzo in Musica a Quatro Voci. Composto dal Giuseppe Haydn, anno [1]766'; with flutes, corni inglesi, etc. In 2 Acts. According to a note made by Pohl in 1869, the text is very imperfect. Characters; Gasparina, Don Ettore, Appolonia (sic), and Don Pelagio. f. 19.

3. 'Lo Speziale': Drama in 3 Akten in Musik gesetzt von Joseph Haydn...1768'; described in the original libretto (given here) as 'Dramma Giocoso.' Transcribed by Joseph Strauss, organist at Eisenstadt. The introductory symphony and beginning of Act i are wanting. Flutes and bassoons are occasionally employed in the orchestra. Characters: Sempronio, Mengone, Grilletta, and Volpino. ff. 79-193b.