Shortly before his death, Giovanni Pergolesi moved to the Franciscan monastery in Pozzuoli, where he composed his last works. Among these is his Stabat mater. The piece reveals the infusion into churc...
Written in 1736 shortly before the early death of the only 26-year-old Pergolesi, the 'Stabat mater' quickly attracted attention. The importance of the work was soon so great that none other than Joha...
None other than Johann Sebastian Bach arranged Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s well-known Stabat mater for performances at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche. Bach replaced the old liturgical sequence of the origin...
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi erhielt Ende 1734 in Neapel den Auftrag einer adeligen Bruderschaft, den "Stabat mater"-Text neu zu vertonen, um die Komposition des 1725 verstorbenen Alessandro Scarlatti...
Das 1736 kurz vor dem frühen Tod des nur 26-jährigen Pergolesi entstandene 'Stabat mater' erregte schnell Aufmerksamkeit. Die Bedeutung des Werkes war bald so gross, dass kein Geringerer als Johann Se...