401DutchOperas Anthology I
401DutchOperas Anthology I
The first part of the 401DutchOperas Anthology covers the period from Sweelinck (1594) to the en of the French Period in 1814. The book will be published in November/December 2025 by the lecturis/Dato Fund in collaboration with the Netherlands Music Institute Foundation.
Included are opera composers such as Vondel/Padbrué, Huygens and the Amsterdam Liedschool composers 1687-1715: Hacquart/Buysero, Petersen, Anders and Schenck. In the first half of the 18th century also Van Blankenburg, De Fesch and Zingoni. From the period of Stadtholder William V: Jacob Jan van Wassenaer Obdam, Josina van Boetzelaer, Gottfried van Swieten, Belle van Zuylen, Colizzi, JMeissner, Just, the Mulligen brothers, and Mozart in The Hague. In the French Period: Bartholomeus Ruloffs, Jean des Communes and Ludwig van Beethoven, of whom the story is examined that he was born in Zutphen.
A biographical sketch is given for each composer, followed by the plot summaries of those operas by his or her hand of which music survived. These plots are followed by a discussion of the work and a discography. The CDs and downloadables accompanying the book contain highlights from almost all the works discussed.
Book Launch
The 401DutchOperas Anthology Vol I is currently being prepared for print, with a planned publication date of November/December As soon as the exact printing and delivery dates are known, we will schedule a date and location for a book launch. Details will be announced here.
