A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Abu Hassan

by George Grove

ABU HASSAN, a comic singspiel or operetta in one act, the words by Hiemer, the music by Weber, composed between Aug. 11, 1810, and Jan 12, 1811. It seems to have been produced on the 4th of the following June at Munich, under Winter. In London it was produced in English at Drury Lane in 1835, and in Italian, at Drury Lane on May 12, 1870 (at the same time with Mozart's 'Oca del Cairo'), the translation being made by Marchesi, and the dialogue set to recitative by Arditi. There appear to have been only two performances. [See Weber, vol. iv. pp. 396, 7.]

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