Stabat Mater à trois voix - Boccherini, Luigi 1743-1805 (Paris Sieber, 1805)
Introduzione (F major) -- Stabat mater dolorosa, Grave assai (F minor) -- Cujus animam gementem, Allegro (F minor) -- Quae moerebat et dolebat, Allegretto con moto (C minor) -- Quid est homo, Adagio assai - Recitativo (C minor) -- Pro peccatis suae gentis, Allegretto (A-flat major) -- Eja mater, fons amoris, Larghetto non tanto (E-flat major) -- Tui nati vulnerati, Allegro vivo (E-flat major) -- Virgo virginum praeclara, Andantino (B-flat major) -- Fac ut portem Christi mortem, Larghetto (F major)Fac me plagis vulnerari, Allegro commodo (C minor) -- Quando corpus morietur, Andante lento (F minor/F major)
His Stabat Mater was commissioned in 1781 for the Las Arenas church by his employer, the infant Don Luis. The text is based on a text dating from the thirteenth century and attributed to Jacopone da Todi, which meditates on the suffering of Mary at the crucifixion.Its first version is based on a soprano voice intimately mixed with the string quintet (two violins, one viola, two cellos) forming a sextet. It is composed of 11 parts and lasts about three quarters of an hour.The musician took up the score again nearly twenty years later (in 1800), adding an overture (first movement of the symphony op. 35 no. 4 of 1782) and three voices: sopranos and tenor. The orchestra part is not touched despite the number of players. The reworked version corresponds to opus 61 of the musician's catalog.
publisher's autograph on title page
Originally published in 1801
restored by Cor Knops
Keywords: 19th Century (1801-1900); Stabat Mater; Vocal music; France