Stabat Mater PERGOLESI GIOVANNI BATTISTA

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The Critical Edition – Study Score series offers a selection of scores from the Ricordi critical edition catalogue in a practical study format. Each paperback volume faithfully reproduces the complete musical text of the corresponding hardcover edition, while the historical introduction and critical commentary are available as a downloadable digital supplement. An indispensable resource for performers, scholars, and enthusiasts who wish to explore this repertoire from a musicological perspective, with the convenience of a portable format. Undisputed masterpiece among Pergolesi’s production, the Stabat mater was long considered a stylistic ideal model in the genre of sacred music. The work was commissioned in all probability by Marzio IV Carafa, Duke of Maddaloni, for the Cavalieri of the Arciconfraternita della Beata Vergine dei Sette Dolori and written between 1735 and 1736, in the last months of life of Pergolesi.