Summary
Stabat Mater for solo alto and orchestra, RV 621, is a composition by the Italian baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi on one of the Sorrows of Mary. It was premiered in Brescia in 1712.[1]
Instrumentation edit
The work is scored for violins I & II, violas, solo alto or countertenor and basso continuo.
Movements edit
Vivaldi's Stabat Mater only uses the first ten stanzas of the hymn.[2] The music is keyed in F minor, and is generally slow and melancholy, with allegro only being used once in the Amen, and all the other movements not going faster than andante. Movements 4, 5, and 6 are identical to the first three musically. The composition is structured into nine movements as follows:
- Stabat mater dolorosa
- Cujus animam gementem
- O quam tristis et afflicta
- Quis est homo
- Quis non posset contristari
- Pro peccatis suae gentis
- Eia mater, fons amoris
- Fac ut ardeat cor meum
- Amen
In popular culture edit
A piano transcription of this work was featured prominently in the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley.
References edit
External links edit
- Stabat Mater (Vivaldi): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Free scores of Stabat Mater (Vivaldi) in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)