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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (January 4, 1710 – March 16, 1736) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist. Pergolesi was born in Jesi, Italy, where he studied music under Francesco Santini there before going to Naples in 1725 where he studied under Gaetano Greco among others. He spent most of his life working in Neapolitan courts. Pergolesi was one of the most important early composers of opera buffa (comic opera). His opera seria Il prigioner superbo contained the two act buffa intermezzo, La Serva Padrona (The Landlady Servant, 1733), which became a very popular work in its own right. When it was given in Paris in 1752, it prompted the so-called querelle des bouffons (quarrel of the comedians) between supporters of serious French opera by the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau and supporters of new Italian comic opera. Pergolesi was held up as a model of the Italian style during this quarrel, which divided Paris's musical community for two years. Among Pergolesi's other operatic works are his first opera La conversione e morte di San Guglielmo (1731), Lo frate 'nnammorato (The friar in love, 1732), L'Olimpiade (1735) and Il Flaminio (1735). All his operas were premiered in Naples apart from L'Olimpiade which was first given in Rome. Pergolesi also wrote sacred music, including a Mass in F. It is his Stabat Mater (1736), however, for male soprano, male alto and orchestra, which is his best known sacred work. It was commissioned as a replacement fo
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Stabat mater dolorosa
28,5712Pergolesi: Stabat Mater: I. Stabat Mater dolorosa
21,0463Stabat Mater 07
15,8414Miserere II in C minor 07
15,8145Salve Regina in C minor 4
15,5456Magnificat in C major 2
15,3427Salve Regina
15,1308Quae moerebat et dolebat
14,9359Miserere II in C minor 09
14,91510Miserere II in C minor 12
14,686albums
Musica sacra
PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater / Salve Regina in C minor
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Laudate pueri & Confitebor
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Pergolesi: Stabat mater; Salve regina
PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater / Orfeo
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Salve Regina in F minor; Salve Regina in A minor
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77/Stabat Mater dolorosa
Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater - Pergolesi
Volume 1 : Concertos Et Récitals 1961-1965
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Salve Regina - Florilegium