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The Stabat Mater is a sacred vocal composition by Italian Baroque composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, completed in 1736. It is scored for soprano and alto soloists, string ensemble, and basso continuo. The work sets the 13th-century Latin sequence that describes the Virgin Mary's suffering at the...
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Enduring sacred classic praised for melodic beauty, emotional directness, and vocal elegance, despite questions of stylistic lightness and repetition.
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Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) is a 1736 Italian sacred work for soprano, alto, and strings, one of the most reprinted pieces of the 18th century and composed in the final weeks of his life.
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Eighteenth-century sacred hit, still beloved for pathos and melodic grace, major Stabat Mater setting.
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Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater, Op. 53, is a sacred work composed in 1925 and 1926 for soprano, alto, baritone, mixed chorus, and orchestra. Rather than using the customary Latin text, Szymanowski set a Polish translation of the medieval poem describing Mary's grief at the Crucifixion. The six-mov...
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Szymanowski choral masterpiece, admired for Polish text setting, color, and emotional concentration.
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Stabat Mater is a sacred composition written by Arvo Pärt in 1985 for soprano, countertenor, tenor, violin, viola, and cello. It sets the medieval Latin poem describing Mary's suffering at the Crucifixion of Jesus. The music uses Pärt's tintinnabuli technique, pairing stepwise melodic lines with voi...
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Important Pärt chamber-choral work, admired for severity and purity, narrower scoring limits reach.
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James MacMillan's Stabat Mater is a large-scale sacred work completed in 2016, setting the medieval Latin poem about Mary grieving at the crucifixion of Jesus. Written for mixed chorus and string orchestra, it was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for The Sixteen and its conductor Harry Christo...
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Recent MacMillan sacred work strongly praised, high modern reputation though still consolidating canon status.
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Francis Poulenc's Stabat Mater is a sacred work composed in 1950 for soprano soloist, mixed chorus, and orchestra. Poulenc wrote it in response to the death of his friend, the painter and designer Christian Bérard, who died in 1949, choosing the medieval Latin meditation on Mary's grief at the cruci...
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Strong Poulenc sacred score, respected for grief and lyricism, less famous than Gloria.
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Antonio Vivaldi's Stabat Mater, RV 621 (c. 1712), is a setting of the medieval hymn on the Virgin's grief at the crucifixion for contralto soloist and strings, notable for its sustained emotional intensity.
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Vivaldi's sombre alto Stabat Mater is admired for restraint and expressive depth.
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Karl Jenkins's Stabat Mater is a large-scale sacred choral work composed in 2008. It sets the medieval Stabat Mater text alongside passages in Aramaic and combines Western choral and orchestral writing with musical colors associated with the Middle East. The scoring includes chorus, solo voices, orc...
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Accessible and widely recorded, but critical consensus is weaker and stylistic gestures can seem generic.
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