Canto e Pianoforte
Composer / Author: Haydn, Joseph
Title: Lo Speziale - Der Apotheker Hob. XXVIII:3
Dramma giocoso
Detailed instrumentation: Piano, Soprano solo (2), Tenor solo (2)
Librettist: Goldoni, Carlo
Arranger: Wernhard, Eike
Editor: Wirth, Helmut
Translator / Further participants: Brenner, Peter
Product format: Piano reduction, Urtext edition
Comments on the edition: Urtext from: Joseph Haydn Werke, G. Henle Verlag Munich
Language(s) of work: Italian, German
Language(s) of text: German, English
Publisher/Editore: Bärenreiter


The newly-built opera house in the park at Schloss Eszterháza was opened in September 1768 with Lo Speziale . The work has combinations of roles and the complications typical for opera buffa . The two youths Mengone and Volpino complete for the affections of Grilletta , the pretty ward of the strange apothecary Sempronio . But the apothecary would prefer the girl for himself. In the end, true love triumphs.

Unfortunately, the score of Lo Speziale has not survived the centuries in a complete form. Parts of the music of the third act are lost. The corresponding text has been taken from the libretto.

The appendix includes a second version of aria no. 7, which has survived in Haydn’s autograph .

The vocal score is based on the Urtext of the corresponding volume of the Haydn Complete Edition (XXV/3, 1959) and the Critical Commentary.

- Vocal score based on the Haydn Complete Edition published by G. Henle
- Practical performing vocal score
- Original Italian text, with German singing translation
- Detailed foreword in two languages (German/English)

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