Stabat Mater (Rossini)
The Stabat Mater by Gioachino Rossini is one of his rare sacred compositions.
Rossini had been commissioned to set the Stabat Mater text to music in 1831 by the Spanish State Councilor and theologian Manuel Fernández Varela (1772–1834). Since Rossini fell ill during the composition, but the client insisted on completing the work, Rossini asked his student Giovanni Tadolini (1793–1872) to add some missing numbers. This mixed version was premiered on Good Friday , April 5, 1833, in the Convento de San Felipe el Real in Madrid . Fernández Varela never learned that the work he was hearing was not entirely from Rossini's pen.
After Fernández Varela's death, Rossini devoted himself to the work again sometime between 1838 and 1841 and replaced the parts of Tadolini with newly composed, own contributions. This revised version was first performed on January 7, 1842 at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris .
Musical structure
The Stabat Mater is divided into ten sentences:
- Introduzione , Coro e Solisti - Stabat Mater dolorosa
- Aria per tenore - Cuius animam
- Duetto per soprano e mezzo-soprano - Quis est homo
- Aria per Basso - Pro peccatis
- Recitativo per Basso e Coro - Eia, Mater
- Quartetto , Soloists - Sancta Mater
- Cavatina per mezzo-soprano - Fac ut portem
- Aria per Soprano e Coro - Inflammatus et accensus
- Quartetto , soloists - Quando corpus
- Finale , coro- amen, in sempiterna
literature
- Gioachino Rossini: Stabat Mater. Ed. And with a foreword by Klaus Döge . Carus, Stuttgart 1994, score DNB 35098199X and piano reduction DNB 350841284 / ISMN 979-0-007-07572-9 (search in the DNB portal) .
Web links
- Stabat Mater (Rossini) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Documentation for the Italian premiere in Bologna, March 1842 (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Riemann : Music Lexicon . Second volume. 8th edition. Max Hesse, Berlin and Leipzig 1916. Reprint: BoD - Books on Demand, 2017, ISBN 978-9-92504-482-5 , p. 949 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ a b Klaus Döge : Foreword. In: Gioachino Rossini: Stabat Mater. Score (= Carus 70.089). Carus, Stuttgart 1994, pp. IV-V.