In March 2022, the Ultimate Stabat Mater Website Foundation unveiled ‘Stabat Mater Dolorosa – a journey through seven ages of music,’ a book written in Dutch. This book narrates the inception of our Ultimate Stabat Mater Website, which originated from Hans van der Veldens personal passion in 1997. Over 25 years, our platform has evolved …
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 …
Website about Jacopone da Todi
The monk Jacopone da Todi (ca. 1228-1306) is named as one of the most probable poets of the Stabat Mater poem. In 2021 I visited Mr. Claudio Peri in the city of Todi in Umbria, Italy. Mr. Claudio Peri is an emeritus Professor of Food Science from the University of Milan. He and his wife …
One missing CD less!
J. K. Berger pointed me to several Stabat Mater compositions, not yet in my collection but listed on the page Missing CDs. I will add to my collection the Stabat Mater of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber soon. Here you can listen to (a part of) the compositions. Thanks! Aggazaria (1578 – 1640) Heinrich Ignaz von Biber (1644 …
Stabat Mater by Vivian Fine
Brad Gelineau was so kind to inform me about the Stabat Mater by Vivian Fine. She is an American composer. The composition doesn’t use either the Stabat Mater Dolorosa or the Stabat Mater Speciosa, but instead a poem written about 1940 by Józef Wittlin from Poland. He fled Europe from the Nazis, which explains the …
