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Acknowledgements

It would have been impossible to gather all this information without the help of all those people, some near, others  in  places all over the world. Some are Stabat Mater fanatics like me, others have just taken an interest and were kind enough to help with some piece of information, or by buying a CD for me in their country. I want to thank them all by listing them here in alphabetical order.

I trust that everyone will understand that I make one exception for a very special thank you: Hannie, my wife and friend, who started the whole thing and never stops trying to find ways to make this site better and more interesting.

Thanks to :

  • Willem Abma for sending me his Frisian translation and allowing me to publish it on my site
  • Luís Ançã who not only bought a CD for me in Portugal, but even sent it to me for free, not once, but several times!
  • Peter Anseeuw for supplying names of a lot of composers
  • Bertie Arinson for supplying me with a Hebrew translation
  • Dr.Hans van den Berg who not only bought two CD’s for me in Bolivia, but even sent them to me for free!
  • Janusz Bogdan, for corrections of typing errors in Spanish and Polish texts
  • Doris Caruana of Malta, who kindly bought a CD with music by Maltese composers for me, and sent it to me for free!
  • William Copper for sending me the score of his Stabat Mater and an organ transcription of the work on CDR.
  • Joost Cornet, my friend and bridgepartner, for giving me a very special recording of the Gouvy Stabat Mater
  • Tom Dawkes for his corrections of the Irish Gaelic translation.
  • Michael Dölker, for sending me copies with translations of the texts Stabat Mater Dolorosa and Stabat Mater Speciosa from the CD booklet Christus – Oratorio of Franz Liszt. He found many composers I did not know yet.
  • Arjan van Dijk for sending me a CDR with the recording of his Stabat Mater
  • Robert Faltin and his mother Rachel for buying for me a recording of the Donceanu Stabat Mater in Switzerland
  • Hans Festen for supplying names of a lot of composers
  • Federico Gómez Figueroa, who not only gave me the CD of Pedro Rabassa, but who came in person to my house to present it to me (from Spain!), and who allowed me to make a copy of the Carcoler CD.
  • Aaron Garber for sending me a CDR with the recording of his Stabat Mater
  • Pavel Gavrilyuk for supplying me with a Russian translation
  • Jack Hennessey for supplying me with an Irish Gaelic translation
  • Klaas de Jong for making a translation into Dutch of several Italian texts from inserts
  • Philippe Joukes for drawing my attention to some new CD’s
  • Csaba Kapitany for supplying me with Hungarian translations
  • Ivo Kylar for supplying me with a Czech translation
  • Pär Larson for supplying me with an Italian translation
  • Robert an Kathy Lee for introducing me to many composers and giving me many CDs as a present
  • Thomas Oboe Lee for sending me a CDR with the recording of his Stabat Mater
  • Marcel van der Linden for introducing me to the Stabat Mater Foundation
  • Paul Linder who sent me a translation into French of a large part of my site
  • Ragnhild E. Bye Lütken for supplying me with a Norwegian translation
  • Mr. Hubert Maillard for sending me as a present the CD with the Stabat Mater by David Haladjian and many other songs by the Yerevan Women’s Choir of Armenia,
  • The Matsushita Choir, Osaka for sending me their CD with the recording of the Stabat Mater by Javier Busto
  • Lisette van Meurs for making a translation into Dutch of the Spanish texts of the Gorriti and Ledesma CD’s
  • Andrea Montello for supplying me with a Slowakian translation
  • Agnus Moulij for supplying me with an Hebrew translation
  • Franco Nava for making copies of some hard-to-get CD’s and sending to me for free!
  • Timo Nuoranne, conductor of the Elisabeth Singers, Hiroshima, for sending me their CD with the recording of the Stabat Mater by Bengt Johansson
  • Fr.Ricardo Dias Neto for supplying me with a Portuguese translation
  • Willi Oeschger, administrative manager of the Choir of the Kantonsschule Wiedikon, who send me their recording of the Maggini Stabat Mater for free!
  • Anita van Ommeren for helping me with the meaning of the Latin text
  • Luis de Orueta for supplying names of another 25 composers
  • Jan Pivoňka for his corrections concerning the Czech composer Jakub Jan Ryba and his Stabat Mater. He was very helpful in analysing the different sections and stanzas of the piece so I could make a colourbar. He also sent me a CD with the Stabat Mater by RobertHejnar, for free.
  • Tadeusz Piotrowski for supplying me with another Polish translation
  • Leo Rademakers who has been a great aid in helping purchase CD’s
  • Antônio Rodrigues who not only bought two CD’s for me in Brazil, but then send them to me for free!
  • Arie Romein for letting me copy some translations by Dutch poets from his site
  • Orlando Romulo Sanchez for sending me a CD with Stabat Mater by Pergolesi for piano solo, played by Marie-Luise Hinrichs.
  • Brian Schober for sending me the score of his Stabat Mater and a free CD of the work
  • Harry Spelt for sending me a CDR with the recording of a Stabat Mater by Tommaso Traetta
  • Professor Han Steenwijk for supplying me with a Resian (Slovenian dialect) translation
  • Augustín Suárez for supplying me with Spanish translations
  • Johanna Sundberg for letting me use her Swedish translation
  • Stig Aaberg Thomsen for supplying me with a Danish translation
  • Tommie Terkelsen of Bergen, Norway for giving me a CDR with the recording of the Stabat Mater by Trond Kverno
  • Daniel Tilley for sending me a CDR with the recording of a Stabat Mater by Györgi Orbán
  • Fré Thissen for sending me a CDR with the recording of the Stabat Mater of Bertha Frensel Wegener – Koopman, a copy of three Stabat Maters: Wüllner, Fux and Tucapsky and a copy of six Stabats: Vellard, Gorczycky, Olive, MacDowall, Aichinger and Zotto
  • Rita Varonen, conductor of the Cantovinum choir, Finland, for sending me their CD with the recording of the Stabat Mater compositions by Sami Klemola, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi and Erkki Raiski
  • Ignace Verberk, our friend, who from the beginning has taken an interest in the collection and who searches wherever he goes, and brings home Stabat Mater compositions again and again.
  • Florence Vilen for sending me a rhyming Swedish translation
  • Stefan Welkovic who not only bought a CD for me in Brazil, but then send it to me for free!
  • Michael Wolpe for sending me a CD with the recording of his Stabat Mater
  • Omar Yagoubi for sending me a CDR with the recording of his Stabat Mater
  • Alain Zalmanski for sending me a CD of a breton Stabat Mater and some scores