Stabat Mater [arr. Choir & organ] Stuttgart Schütz Edition Third version

Third version

The underlying 13-vers hymn by Michael Franck provided Bach and his unidentified librettist with an abundance of metaphors and comparisons which

From the first performance the oratorio was already a great success

and some for manuals and pedal

this homage to the patron saint of church music

Stabat Mater [arr. Choir & organ] Stuttgart Schütz Edition Third versionThe Stabat Mater is the last work composed by Giuseppe Verdi. He completed it in 1897 at the age of 84. One year later it was published with the somewhat earlier Te Deum as part of the Quattro pezzi sacri. Verdi set Marys meditation in the face of her crucified son, a classic of Medieval Latin poetry, in an operatically expressive style for choir and large orchestra. Verdis Stabat Mater is now published for the first time in a critical edition. Also