Stabat Mater in G minor (Schubert)

The parish church in Lichtental, also known as *Schubertkirche*. The Stabat Mater is thought to have been composed for liturgical use in the church.

Stabat Mater in G minor, D 175, is a musical setting of the Latin Stabat Mater sequence, composed by Franz Schubert in April 1815.^[1] It is scored for SATB choir, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 trombones, violin I and II, viola, and basso continuo (cello, double bass and organ).

This setting contains four stanzas of the twenty stanzas of the sequence. After a short orchestral interlude, these four stanzas are repeated with "far-reaching variation".^[2] Its structure as a single continuous movement is unusual; most of Schubert's sacred works (not including masses) were composed as one movement divided into three sections.^[3] While settings of the Stabat Mater developed into a staple of concert music by the late 19th century, it is thought that this piece would have been performed for liturgical use in the Lichtental Church.^[4]

Schubert's original manuscript indicates that he wished to score the piece with horns, rather than trombones. However, the early horn was valveless, limiting it from producing certain notes; the minor key setting made it impossible to perform the work with horns.^[2]

A year later, Schubert composed his Stabat Mater in F minor, D 383. This was a far longer work in the form of a short oratorio, and the text used was a German paraphrase of the Latin text, as written by F. G. Klopstock.

References[edit]

^ Howie, Crawford (2008). "Small is beautiful: Schubert's smaller sacred works". In Reul, Barbara M.; Bodley, Lorraine Byrne (eds.). The Unknown Schubert. Ashgate Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 9780754661924.
^ ^a ^b Newbould, Brian (1999). Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press. p. 139. ISBN 9780520219571.
^ Shrock, Dennis (2009). Choral Repertoire. Oxford University Press. p. 383. ISBN 9780199716623.
^ Black, Leo (2003). Franz Schubert: Music and Belief. Boydell Press. p. 26. ISBN 9781843831358.

External links[edit]

Stabat Mater, D.175: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Free scores of v in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

[1] Howie, Crawford (2008). "Small is beautiful: Schubert's smaller sacred works". In Reul, Barbara M.; Bodley, Lorraine Byrne (eds.). The Unknown Schubert. Ashgate Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 9780754661924.

[Newbould-2] Newbould, Brian (1999). Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press. p. 139. ISBN 9780520219571.

[3] Shrock, Dennis (2009). Choral Repertoire. Oxford University Press. p. 383. ISBN 9780199716623.

[4] Black, Leo (2003). Franz Schubert: Music and Belief. Boydell Press. p. 26. ISBN 9781843831358.

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