Franz Sales Kandler (1792–1831), an enthusiastic Viennese music scholar, wrote the essay Cenni storicocritici in memory and in honor of the composer Johann Adolf Hasse (1699–1783). In this, he recommended Hasse – who was outstandingly successful in his day – to younger generations of composers as a role model, despite the social and stylistic changes which had taken place in the intervening years. The original Italian text is published here for the first time with a German translation.