a musical journey through the ages...
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 …
Mr. Michele Bocchini about his Stabat Mater composition:Read More
…The Ultimate Stabat Mater website is a wonderful resource for scholars, composers, musicians, academics, theologians, lovers of music who appreciate the subject matter – the list is endless! I applaud your husband’s legacy and your own great efforts to continue the initiative… That’s what Richard Prior wrote to us when he contacted us about his …
We just added the Stabat Mater by Tyler Versluis. It was composed for the Lenten season at Saint Matthew’s Anglican Church in Etobicoke, Canada in 2022. Like many other composers, his motivation behind composing a Stabat Mater lays in his desire to take part in a tradition, both religious and musical. The gorgeous settings of …
Mrs. Clement was kind enough to send us the CD with compositions by her late husband Andries Clement, a Dutch composer who was born in 1943. Clement studied choral conducting at the Amsterdam Conservatory and Musicology at the University of Utrecht. He was a teacher at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Zwolle. In 1975 he …
We just added the Stabat Mater from Juan Bautista Cansino (1854), one of seven Stabat Maters that Cansino composed. Juan Bautista Cansino was born ca 1826 in Malaga, Spain. After his death in 1897 all his sacred (94) and secular compositions fell into oblivion. Forgotten for a long time, he was again the subject of …
We are delighted to present two new composers, both with their roots in Malta: Euchar Gravina and Christopher Muscat. A special touch is that Muscat leads not only the performance of his own Stabat Mater but also Gravina’s. Ultimate Stabat Mater Website Foundation received the CDs as a kind donation from the Marketing Unit of …
After three moving months, I finally have our Stabat Mater ready. The emotion cannot be described, it is something you feel, not what you say. …I’m happy, proud, but also speechless when this ‘baby’ will crawl for the first time… On the occasion of the world premiere of this baby in the Netherlands, countertenor Sytse …
We have added two Stabat Maters by the French composer Bonaventure François Joseph Petit, (Prades 1811- Perpignan 1901). He received his first piano and harmony lessons from his father and his brother. Later on he studied in Paris with Jacques Fromental Halévy (harmony and composition) and with Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (organ). In 1894 he …
We just added the Stabat Mater by Emperor Leopold I (1640 – 1705), son of emperor Ferdinand III. He lived in Vienna. As a child he was taught the harpsichord and received lessons in composition from his Director of Music at his Court Chapel. He spent the sum of 60,000 gulden yearly on his court …
Giacomo Sellitto (Naples , July 28, 1701 – Naples , November 20, 1763) was a Italian composer, of both sacred music and music for the theatre, and singing teacher. Naples was one of the main musical centres of Italy and even of Europe in the first half of the 18th century. The music of so …
