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 …
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 …
New Stabat Mater by Richard Prior
…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 …
Latest additions: Sharafyan, Näther and Argüello
We just added three Stabat Mater composers to our Ultimate Stabat Mater Website. The first one by Vache Sharafyan from Armenia, has been composed for male choir and mezzo-soprano. Mr. …
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 …
Farewell dialogue Mary and Jesus
O mater, dulcis mater, habeo quid dicam, O mother, dear mother, I have something to tell you. Thus the dialogue begins of Jesus on the cross with his mother Mary. It …
Latest addition: Tyler Versluis
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, …
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Our Ultimate Stabat Mater website has a YouTube channel where you will find about 240 Stabat Mater compositions and that number is growing almost every day! Our commitment is to …
New Stabat: Andries Clement
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 …
Stabat Mater, a novel by J. C. Smith
Until recently, I had never come across a novel with the title Stabat Mater where the Stabat Mater is an integral part of the story and its vision. Its author …