Stabat Mater [arr. Choir & organ] Stuttgart Schütz Edition and some for manuals and

and some for manuals and pedal

Third version

The "greatest musical work of art of all times and all peoples" (to quote the enthusiastic Hans Georg Nägeli

The underlying 13-vers hymn by Michael Franck provided Bach and his unidentified librettist with an abundance of metaphors and comparisons which

Stabat Mater [arr. Choir & organ] Stuttgart Schütz Edition and some for manuals andThe Stabat Mater is the last work composed by Giuseppe Verdi. He completed it in 1897 at the age of 84. One year later it was published with the somewhat earlier Te Deum as part of the Quattro pezzi sacri. Verdi set Marys meditation in the face of her crucified son, a classic of Medieval Latin poetry, in an operatically expressive style for choir and large orchestra. Verdis Stabat Mater is now published for the first time in a critical edition. Also