Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
1710 - 1736
Italy
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (04/01/1710 - 16/03/1736), an Italian composer, born in Jesi. His Stabat mater became world-famous.
| Author: | Theo Willemze |
| Source: | Componistenlexicon |
From the late 17th century onwards, mainly through the contributions of leading opera composers such as Feo, Galuppi, Hasse, Pergolesi, Jommelli, Gassmann, Cimarosa and Gossec, individual movements of the requiem became gradually larger, the orchestration richer and the solo vocal writing more elaborate. In some cases, single texts, usually the sequence and the responsory, were set separately, either as independent motets or as a means of providing vivid contrast within chanted forms of the funeral service.
| Author: | Steven Chang-Lin Yu |
Dies irae
| Period: | Baroque |
| Musical form: | motet |
| Text/libretto: | Thomas de Celano (1190 - c.1255) |
A setting of Dies irae, identical, except for two verses, with the Stabat mater, is included in the Opera omnia, in the believe that it represents the earliest form of the music. It is certainly spurious - one of the numerous later adaptations of the Stabat mater. The Stabat mater begins and ends in F minor. The Dies irae retains the key-scheme of the movements borrowed from the Stabat mater, including the ending in F minor, but tacks on to them an opening in C major. The word-settings, too, (e.g. the chromatic 'morietur' in "Quando corpus") show that the Stabat mater was the original.
| Source: | Grove's dictionary of music and musicians |
Requiem in B flat major
| Period: | Baroque |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
This Requiem in B flat major is for 4 voices and orchestra.
| Source: | Grove's dictionary of music and musicians |