| PERGOLESI, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736
Stabat mater F�r Sopran, Alt, Streicher & Bassso Continuo. Faksimile des Autographs herausgegeben von Tineke Steenbrink
[Stabat mater, soprano, alto, strings& bc]
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Magdeburg, 2013. Oblong, 31 x 24 cm, 5, 82 pp. 4-color facsimile of the autograph score preserved in the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino. Although Pergolesi�s �urve is often subject to misattribution, the Stabat mater in C minor is a genuine work (possibly the composer�s last), commissioned by the Confraternit� dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo (Naples). The Order presented an annual Good Friday meditation in honor of the Virgin Mary and Pergolesi�s setting replaced the one by Alessandro Scarlatti composed only 9 years earlier. This moving setting�in striking �durezze e ligature� style�conveys the story of the suffering of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the cross; it went through numerous reprinting in the 18th c. and inspired many composers including J.S. Bach.
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