Baerenreiter Verlag Stabat Mater - Pergolesi/Bruno/Ritchie - Full Score - Book

Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Editors: Malcolm Bruno, Caroline Ritchie
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Version: Full Score

• The popular work is presented in a well researched Urtext edition

The "Stabat mater", composed shortly before Pergolesi's untimely death at the early age of 26, quickly attracted attention. The work's importance was soon so great that none other than Johann Sebastian Bach performed a German version of the work based on the 51st Psalm. Numerous copies, prints and arrangements attest to the work's vast popularity, a popularity that still exists today.

For the present edition, the autograph was for the first time compared to a very early Neapolitan score that is presumably based on the parts from the work's premiere. The findings have influenced the musical text; the details are described in the critical commentary.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Stabat mater for Soprano, Alto, Strings and Basso continuo:
  • 1. Stabat mater dolorosa
  • 2. Cuius animam gementem
  • 3. O quam tristis et afflicta
  • 4. Quae maerebat et dolebat
  • 5. Quis est homo
  • 6. Vidit suum dulcem natum
  • 7. Eia, mater, fons amoris
  • 8. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum
  • 9. Sancta mater, istud agas
  • 10. Fac, ut portem Christi mortem
  • 11. Inflammatus et accensus
  • 12. Quando corpus morietur
• Critical Commentary