Stabat Mater - Musical Settings

Musical Settings

Composers who have written settings of the Stabat Mater include Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antonio Vivaldi,and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; of the latter's setting, the German poet Tieck opined: "I had to turn away to hide my tears, especially at the place, 'Vidit suum dulcem natum'". Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater is considered "a treasury of refined and graceful melody". Others who have written settings are Agostino Steffani, Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Emanuele d'Astorga, Winter, Raimondi, Vito, Lanza, Neukomm. In the 19th century, Gioachino Rossini wrote his setting after retiring from the composition of opera, while Antonín Dvořák wrote his setting when he was still active in writing secular music. Most of the settings are in Latin, but Karol Szymanowski's setting and Paul Bebenek's are in Polish.

Others: John Browne, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Gounod, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Giovanni Felice Sances, Alessandro Scarlatti (1724), Domenico Scarlatti (1715), Pedro de Escobar, František Tůma, Vladimir Martynov, Arvo Pärt, Josef Rheinberger, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Pasquale Cafaro, Zoltán Kodály, Trond Kverno (1991), Pawel Lukaszewski (1994), Frank Ferko (1999), Salvador Brotons (2000), Bruno Coulais (2005), the black metal band Anorexia Nervosa, the symphonic metal band Epica on the album The Classical Conspiracy, and Karl Jenkins.

• Stabat Mater by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
• Stabat Mater by Joseph Haydn
• Stabat Mater by Domenico Scarlatti
• Stabat Mater by Gioachino Rossini
• Stabat Mater by Karol Szymanowski
• Stabat Mater by Francis Poulenc
• Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
• Stabat Mater by Antonín Dvořák
• Stabat Mater, ballet by Peter Martins
• Stabat Mater Speciosa by Paul Bebenek
• Stabat Mater by Karl Jenkins
• Stabat Mater by Antonio Vivaldi