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The Stabat Mater was performed complete for the first time in Paris at the Théâtre-Italien's Salle Ventadour on 7 January 1842, with Giulia Grisi (soprano), Emma Albertazzi (mezzo-soprano), Mario (tenor), and Antonio Tamburini (baritone) as the soloists. [3] [4] The Escudiers reported that: Rossini's name was shouted out amid the applause.
The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to the Virgin Mary that portrays her suffering as mother during the crucifixion of her son Jesus Christ. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III .
Stabat Mater (P.77) [1] is a musical setting of the Stabat Mater sequence, composed by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in 1736. [2] Composed in the final weeks of Pergolesi's life, [3] it is scored for soprano and alto soloists, violin I and II, viola and basso continuo. The autograph manuscript of the work is preserved in the Benedictine Abbey of ...
Vivaldi's Stabat Mater only uses the first ten stanzas of the hymn. [2] The music is keyed in F minor, and is generally slow and melancholy, with allegro only being used once in the Amen, and all the other movements not going faster than andante. Movements 4, 5, and 6 are identical to the first three musically.
Stabat Mater is a musical setting of the Stabat Mater sequence composed by Arvo Pärt in 1985, a commission of the Alban Berg Foundation.The piece is scored for a trio of singers: soprano, alto, and tenor; and a trio of string instruments: violin, viola, and violoncello; it has a duration of approximately 24 minutes.
Stabat Mater by Alessandro Scarlatti is a religious musical work composed for two voices (soprano/alto), two violins and basso continuo, in 1724, on a commission from the Order of Friars Minor, the "Knights of the Virgin of Sorrows" of the Church of San Luigi in Naples [1] for Lent
In 1924 Princess Edmond de Polignac requested "a piece for soloists, choir, orchestra (perhaps with Polish text): a kind of Polish Requiem." [2] Teresa Chylińska indicates Szymanowski's intentions for the piece in response to the request: "a type of peasant Requiem, something peasant and ecclesiastical, naively devotional, a sort of prayer for souls, a mixture of simple-minded religion ...
The Stabat Mater is divided into twelve movements, [5] which vary dramatically in character from somber to light and frivolous, even on the most serious of texts. All the movements, though, are relatively brief; Robert Shaw's Telarc recording runs just under 30 minutes, with the longest movement taking just over four minutes.