In 2016 Arthur Oostvogel had a nice present for me, on the occasion of the launch of the renewed website: a new Stabat Mater composition, even a Dutch one! This Stabat Mater was composed by Willem Stoppelenburg in 2015. The work is composed for Soprano and Mezzo-soprano, Vocal Ensemble or Chamber Choir and Piano duo. …
New Stabat: Mikhail Bronner
Mikhail Bronner, born in 1952, is a well known contemporary Russian composer. He graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and completed his postgraduate studies in 1981. He is author of more than 100 compositions: operas, ballets, symphonies, choral, vocal and chamber music. Mr Bronner wrote to us: …The suffering of the Mother, who sees …
Translators, editors, proofreaders wanted!
In March 2022 the Ultimate Stabat Mater Website Foundation published the book, in Dutch, Stabat Mater Dolorosa – a journey through seven ages of music. It covers the story of our Ultimate Stabat Mater Website which started as a personal passion of Hans van der Velden in 1997. Now, 25 years later, we are an …
New translation: Ukrainian!
Our everlasting search and exploration into Stabat Mater topics resulted in a very precious and personally contact: Olena Prokopovych, born in Ukraine but now living in the US for many years. Olena wrote us about her involvement with Stabat Mater. She would love to contribute and collaborate on projects of mutual interest. Well, she did …
Unique Stabat Mater Music Calendar 2023
Our latest project is a unique Stabat Mater calendar for composers, musicians and music lovers. Listen to a Stabat Mater composition through a QR code every month! Twelve recordings of the Stabat Mater in various musical styles, such as early music, baroque, classical, jazz and many more. The calendar has photos of paintings, sculptures and …
Johann W. von Goethe and Stabat Mater
Almost everyone of us must have heard about the German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe and his famous work Faust, I suppose. But who did actually know that Goethe in this tragic play, refers to the Stabat Mater text? In Faust he describes the following – medieval – scene: an old stone city wall. Gretchen, a …
Stabat Mater: long and short
People who are familiar with Stabat Mater generally know that Antonin Dvořák composed a Stabat Mater of ninety minutes, the longest Stabat Mater ever. But did you know that the shortest Stabat Mater on our list has only 2:04 minutes? The composer is Charles Haenni from Switzerland and an important part of his work is …
New: Partridge and Lutz
We just added two modern Stabat Mater compositions: Martin Lutz (2007) and Philip Partridge (2015). …Listening to Lutz Stabat you almost forget that the story is about the dreadful suffering and death of Jesus on the cross seen from his mother’s supremely painful point of view. For me it is a “lovely” and intimate composition …
Mr. Michele Bocchini about his Stabat Mater composition:
We just added the Stabat Mater from Michele Bocchini to the website. Mr. Bocchini was so kind to share his thoughts about his composition with us: Although the prayer opens with the scene: the grieving mother stood in tears at the foot of the cross, while her child was hanging, where the lyrics ask to …
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Video Art: Pietà
A gloomy and desolate courtyard with crumbling walls sets the scene. On a table, covered with a sheet, lies a human figure, possibly a dead body. The woman positioned behind the table removes the sheet away revealing a sculpture, made of clay. With care, she takes the arm and hand, molding them into the correct …
