Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat mater: Soprano & Alto: Score

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.The popular workis presented in a well researched Urtext editionClear idiomatic piano reduction