Bonaventure Petit
About the composer
The French composer Bonaventure François Joseph Petit, (Prades 1811- Perpignan 1901) 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 was appointed professor of harmony and piano at the National School for Music of Perpignan (Roussillon). At the age of 83 he was considered an excellent teacher.
As an organist and composer he was an important person for the musical life in the region of the Roussillon. Yet his compositions were completely forgotten for a long time. Besides various operas, 18 masses, symphonic music, piano music and patriotic songs, he wrote three Stabat Maters: in 1842, 1866 and in 1874 (an adaptation of the Stabat Mater of 1866). Author and composer Hervé Rémond discovered the scores in 2013-2014. Rémond drew our attention to these compositions and to the performances he realized of these works. More about the Stabat Mater of Rémond himself on: https://stabatmater.info/componist/remond/
About the Stabat Mater
| Date: | 1842 |
| Performers: | Choir, String orchestra, soprano 1st tenor, 2d tenor/bariton, bariton/bass, |
| Length: | 72.00 minutes |
| Particulars: | Infused with the Romanticism of the 1830s, the composition is grand and full of temperament. The string orchestra plays technically difficult passages and does much more than support the vocal soloists. Nothing can be found about performances after 1842. The reprise did not come until 2016, 165 years later, at the Eastern China Normal School in Shanghai , more than 9,000 km from Perpignan and was performed by young Chinese music students. Watch the video. |
| Textual variations: | The "Vatican"-version of the text has been used. |
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About the Stabat Mater
| Date: | 1866 |
| Performers: | Solo quartet, mixed choir and piano and organ positive |
| Length: | 33.34 minutes |
| Particulars: | The composer has used the voices and accompaniment effectively and expresses his Christian faith with few musical frills. |
| Textual variations: | The "Vatican"-version of the text has been used. |
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