Pergolesi - Stabat Mater - moritur and amen

[HeIIsguard]

perfect!!

[BozokinUnitedKingdom]

thumbs up if you recognised this playing in the death scene of Mozart's father in Amadeus

[rossyxan]

@BozokinUnitedKingdom Salieri's father!

[justin6969ist]

So good! Two words SUCKER PUNCH! lol

[pokingu2death]

@justin6969ist I don't remember this being on Sucker Punch. It doesn't like the one from the train scene.

[justin6969ist]

@pokingu2death I saw it at the end credits of the movie.

[JALBA0]

Very sad...

Is there one who would not weep, whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ's dear Mother to behold?

[navneroj]

0:50 gives me goosebumbs everytime i hear it

[VicodinAddicted]

amen is majestic!!!

[VicodinAddicted]

to bad he died so young

[LookAtThatBigNameYo]

@VicodinAddicted i was thinking the exact same thing.imagine what he would have created if he dies at the age of 80 or something...i lose faith in humanity just by that thought

[93ionumia31]

how this music is made?? i cannot explaint this to myself.... So simple, but again so complicate to understand how it´s made!!! Love it!!!

[Raichu234]

so beautiful :)

[lavampire]

Forget rap and rock-and-roll and all the crap out there. Listen to Radio Mozart or 91.5 FM in Los Angeles, CA Radio Mozart is at 1260 AM. What you hear on those stations is truly good music.

[kingofskateop]

He was 23 when he composed this... Stop playing computer games, and other useless stuff! :)

[JD710x]

@kingofskateop no he was 26 when he finished it.. he died of tuberculoosis like 7 days after finishing it... some other ppl say he died the same day he finished it...

but yeah stop playing videogames.. there are amazing things in life like music and ur mising it..

[qxiqxs]

sucks ...

[ComposerJMA]

I can't get past the similarities. The first movement is JUST like Mozart's Recordare.

Cordially,

Joshua M. Abramson

Neo-Baroque Compsoer

[fbaraglia]

Pergolesi died so young. But he left this to men.

[ComposerJMA]

@fujianprince, wait until my requiem completion is up, it will be even cooler then :)

[beakt]

@ComposerJMA A little modesty might suit you better.

[ComposerJMA]

@beakt I... wasn't being arrogant, I was suggesting that maybe there is some quoting of the stabat mater in Mozart's requiem...?

--JMA

[beakt]

@ComposerJMA You don't remember that line from the movie?

[ComposerJMA]

@beakt Oh.

[ComposerJMA]

@fujianprince FINALLY! Someone else sees it too! He based the kyrie of his requiem on handel's 'and with his stripes we are healed, and his 'laudate pueri dominum' of the vesperae solennes de confessore on the 'cum sanctis tuis' fugue of michael haydn's 'requiem pro defuncto archepiscopo sigusmundo'.

[fujianprince]

@ComposerJMA wow! I never knew that the "vesperae solennes de confessore" was copied from a M. Haydn fugue!

On a separate note, I just realized Handel's overture to Judas Maccbaeus is similar to Purcell's overture to Dido and Aeneas but with a different "B" section. I subscribed to your channel, it looks so cool :)

[ComposerJMA]

Ahah, for Mozart Enthusiasts out there, Compare this amen to the famous 'Requiem Amen'. See the similarities?

[fujianprince]

@ComposerJMA Interesting similarities...Mozart also copied Handel's "The ways of Zion do mourn" in his Introitus / Requiem aeternam. Mozart is a discreet plagiarizer at best, not a God-given genius.

[tituscaesar]

do we know which choir is performing this hauntingly beautiful performance?

[edcard29]

@tituscaesar Westminster Abbey Choir

[AgApE010]

Simply beautiful. I'm confused: why is this piece typically associated with Mozart?

[fujianprince]

@AgApE010 well this isn't Mozart's for sure, the movie "Amadeus" included it in the soundtrack (ironically not a Mozart piece at all).

Ignorant "Amadeus" fans claim it to be composed by Mozart himself. Historically incorrect.

[winterdesert1]

@AgApE010 because it was used in the movie Amadeus. In the movie it was used correctly to show how much Salieri admired "heavenly" music when he was a young boy. Pergolesi died in 1736. Salieri was born in 1750 and Mozart in 1756.

[AlexCrane08]

At work and for some reason this is the only type of music that keeps me calm. lol

[sannevorrink]

i think it's beautiful but very borring..... it's sooooo slow...

[madhellsing]

2 people like lil wayne..For who dont know who that is that is. Is that little black midget that looks like a garden dwarf

[Glenmorangie100]

Many thanks Dremilian. This is my favourite arrangement. Pure spirituality.

[GiusyEGuido4EverXs]

It's very fantastic ...

[Dremilian]

everyone's soul should be caressed daily with this music, to remember who we are and what we are..... exquisite performance by the Choristers of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston, director........

[josecitomadera]

@Dremilian LOL and what are we?????????

[Glenmorangie100]

Please please please does anyone know who is performing this? It is the best version I have ever heard but I can't find the name of the choir anywhere.

[fairmount1935]

@Glenmorangie100

It is from the Sountrack to the 1984 movie Amedeus You can see it sung by a boys choir in the movie. You can buy the sountrack to Amedeus to hear this song.

[atropos1983]

@Glenmorangie100  it's by the academy of st. martin-in-the-fields

[reegg]

Can someone help me find other parts of Stabat Mater by this choir?

[arngrimur2]

Quando corpus morietur,

fac, ut animae donetur

paradisi gloria. Amen.

When my body dies,

let my soul be granted

the glory of Paradise. Amen.

[ARGENTINATANGO1]

A Favoritos :)

[yuko605]

anyone knows what choir is this?? such clear voices! sounds just like a choir should: heavenly

[fairmount1935]

@yuko605

It is from the Soundtrack to the 1984 movie Amedeus and featured in the movie.

[signingupiseasyd]

Sublime.

[ross5th]

Magnificent.

[frDon46]

Other-worldly musical genius celebrating life, fashioning an aural bridge to eternity whilst in the very embrace of death - maybe there is A Beautiful Somewhere Else after all...

[semperwhisper]

@frDon46 If there is another world, I hope there will be such magnificent music.

[samnow2008]

great. really soothing

[Askelairlines747]

I had this music on while playing a game,,,, i lost the game because i wasnt paying attention to the Game...

[lavampire]

@Askelairlines747 of course you could not concentrate on a very material contraption. You have an eternal soul that connects to beauty, to art, and to the pure sciences. This composition is pure genius and God-given. You were enthralled by its haunting, angelical qualities.

[gabafabawo]

@Askelairlines747 You just made me lose the game.

[dtscott13]

The most perfect piece of music ever written. Shame he died at 26.

[matej804]

to je  ako nebo na zemi,,

[abracadaverous]

I love the boys' choir for the Quando corpus morietur. This piece takes a much lighter touch vocally than the rest of the Stabat Mater, and most sopranos are terrified to let go of their vibratos.

[PashaPetrovich]

Превосходно.

[Marmalade000000]

who sings this piece?

[mishaplumb]

So achingly beautiful

[mishaplumb]

So achingly beautiful.

[metemi]

Thank you for posting this, it can be a bit difficult to find this boy's choir version from the Amadeus soundtrack.

Hauntingly, profoundly beautiful. And pretty darned catchy as well :)

[TheDoctorWhoNerd]

Perfect music...

[EvilManProductions]

AH! I think my mom searched this up signed in as me -_-

[Anizarm]

Even more beautiful than with orchestra and voices of grown-up singers...

[johnsungh]

Playing thins in violin with AMIS choir tomorrow LD

can't wait

[noklarok]

fuck haydn, mozart was obviously influenced by pergolesi,, listen to bits of the requiem

[pianomags]

@noklarok ... Pergolesi was so very influential, and one of the biggies to publicly say that was JS Bach...listen to his Psalm BWV 1083 - it's a direct steal, exactly the same music. I know he died of TB in the monastery a few months after he finished the Stabat so I guess he gave it everything.

[noklarok]

@pianomags : i guess psalm bwv 1083 is like doing a remix or a cover, i cannot spot much difference.. thanks for the info.. i had no idea pergolesi was such a direct influence on bach.. i feel he influenced mozart also. some guy!

[Justineli1990]

Beautiful work of music, the Stabat Mater (O sorrowful Mother) is used in The Catholic Church during Lent While the faithful recall the Lords passion as they pray the stations of the cross.

[Funebre6]

sublime, sublime,SUBLIME

my orchestra play next week this song!!

[ChantHappy]

Une pure merveille

•♫♪*✿♫•*❤♫•

[EvilManProductions]

This is the track from Amadeus? I have that LP and had forgotten. This has nice warmth. I love the Hennig/Jacobs rendition, too, though its a bit more intense.

[noklarok]

@EvilManProductions : they are different tunes btw

[MissGuideMe]

sublime

[claretractor2005]

beautiful peice of music

[Montyleeny14]

I don't like the ending, I believe the original versions of whicht hey have a fast tempo as in the previous bars are far better.

[incifinci69]

"S hogyha testem porba tér meg,

Lelkem akkor a nagy égnek

Dicsőségét lelje meg!"

Hadd ajánljam e gyönyörű és megrázó melódiát tragikusan és váratlanul elhunyt kolléganőm, Fazekas Katalin emlékére.

[charlesrommel]

this music is beautiful!!! however after seen the scenes in Amadeus, it reminds me, the scene in wich Franccesco Salieri is in his coffin,so now when i hear it comes in to my mind images of Victorian post mortem.

[mdo0bm]

Melancholy and haunting but definitely beautiful.

[Montyleeny14]

I love Pergolesi's stabat mater, especially the last movements :)

of course you should listen to other pieces written by other composers who are not so famous, they have composed far more intelligent works than Mozart I must say.

Enjoy the music

[paulusvii97]

Yeah, not a big Mozart fan. His "sad" pieces even sound happy.

[Montyleeny14]

i beg your pardon on that comment?

[uptilthesky]

for example?

[Montyleeny14]

@uptilthesky was that directed at me?

[uptilthesky]

not you, the guy who said Mozart's sad music sounds happy. Not that I think it's bad thing, Mozart's sad music, eventhough when it's profoundly sad, it somehow sounds comforting. If he means Mozart couldn't write sad music, that's just absurd.

[Montyleeny14]

@uptilthesky Mozart write's pieces based on the styles of Josef Haydn's - only to know the only reason that he was popular was because he wrote music at a very young age and of which most are quite recognisable.

[uptilthesky]

I don't know why you're bringing Haydn into this, what has it got to do with Mozart and the emotional range of his music?

[Montyleeny14]

@uptilthesky Josef taught Mozart and influenced Mozart to write music of his teachings, aswell as some of Leopold's.

[uptilthesky]

Mozart, like most other composers, was influenced by his contemporaries. J C. Bach also taught him, most composers are taught by someone. I still don't understand why it's particularly relevant to what we're discussing - the emotional range of Mozart's music, well sad music in particular.

[Montyleeny14]

@uptilthesky his style is different. Its not neccessarily always sad but Mozart styles draw heavily from Joseph Haydn's teachings.

[uptilthesky]

you're just repeating what you said in earlier post. like I said, who influenced his music is a different topic to the one we're discussing. and no one here is denying Haydn's influence on other composers. When they met, Mozart was pretty established himself, Haydn wasn't his teacher in the sense he was to Beethoven, they were more like friends.

[Montyleeny14]

@uptilthesky Like I said before,, Mozart has a style which is similar to Haydn and had been taught by Haydn in his younger years. And like other early classical music composers, Mozart and Haydn had very few baroque techniques in their music which was more complex as music evolved from Baroque.

I suggest you research.

[uptilthesky]

so? it has got nothing to do with the emotional range of Mozart's music. ok, they're from the same musical period, shared similar styles, "like other early classical music composers" as you said \, big surprise! They're from the classical period, used different techniqies from Baroque, another surprise! you're just stating the obvious which isn't relevant to Paul's original comment about Mozart's inability to write sad music.

[paulusvii97]

I should have said that I've never heard a Mozart piece that felt painful. I much prefer Haydn for that very reason; not absurd, just an opinion. I'm always at the ready to stand corrected though, I'd like to like Mozart, but so far I'm not impressed by him really.

[uptilthesky]

you can be sorrowful without being painful. Funny you prefer Haydn, he isn't exactly famed for his sad" music.

[paulusvii97]

Well it's difficult to describe; Haydn's life was so rife with adversity, I think it comes out in his music. Whenever I hear Mozart I just think of aristocrats and fancy silk garments. I love being able to understand the context of music, why it was written and so on. It's possible that I just don't understand Mozart, I'm usually happy to assume that with most things that I don't relate to.

[uptilthesky]

you heard wrong. Haydn led a pretty comfortable life. As for the context of their music, I tell you something, they both wrote more happy music than sad music because happy music was more popular at the time. As they both made a living by writing music, they had to cater to the taste of the audience at the time.

[paulusvii97]

lol. YOU WOULD BRING HAYDN INTO THIS!!!

[uptilthesky]

I would not. Monty did.

[pianomags]

@uptilt & Monty:  Jeeeeeez guys, get a room lol

[gracek703]

love this music.

[arubian06]

even though i am atheist,i like religious music

[luigibattista10]

This music is heaven on earth.

[juliancabrero84]

you are right my friend,this is heavenly music.... by the way i saw your post in the video of that horrible monkey tropical obama music in the white house and i agree with you 100%,coincido contigo xD

[ixiptla]

@luigibattista10 heaven is for wankers

[loganrulz1]

It was funny how in "Amadeus" it was used to show Salieri as a boy praying to be a great composer, and moments later at his father's funeral that he rationalized as "a miracle!"

[pfuric]

Does anyone know how to get the entire piece with the boy soprano choir?

[uptilthesky]

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean Mozart/Bach's sacred music is inferior in anyway. As someone has said it here, Mozart's sacred music is more glorious. It's just that the musical language had changed since Pergolesi's time.

[2222554]

Amen...

[TheSacredHeart2]

My favorite part starts at 3:17

[TheSacredHeart2]

Pergolesi looks like he wants to say something important, as if he was saying: "don't think too hard, just take time to listen."

[fictivictimvision]

I learned "Stabat mater" in highschool. I still remember the verses. :)

[uptilthesky]

The purity of Pergolesi and Palestrina's sacred music is unmatched even by Bach or Mozart.

[schizoidkit]

Pergolesi sounds sacred, but Mozart is simply glorious.

[uptilthesky]

True. Mozart is joyful and glorious, but he can also be all poignant about vulnerabilities of human existence.

[GraceDuringConflict]

Absolutely beautiful...

[glennwith2nns]

too many notes

[jaceklupl]

it was used against Mozart:) in Amadeus. I guess, you love it...

[olialto7]

Ha! Very amusing!

[Mercer1012]

This was used in amadeus where salieri is praying as a boy...

[FrkCorinna]

I know, I found out that as well when we had to sing it in my choir. We were standing there singing it through for the first time, and when we got to the "Amen" part I was like " ....... heeeeey? I know this stuff!" It was so nice doing it, it's very beautiful.

[Marmalade000000]

Pergolesi wrote his Stabat Mater (and his Salve Regina) on his deathbed... it's amazing how he managed to compose such beautiful music right before he was taken from this world.....

[Gilgamesh149]

@Marmalade000000 - Not  unike Mozart composing his Reqiuem Mass as he was dying, as depicted in the movie!

[svetlanacat]

@Marmalade000000 such accomplishments are only possible from deathbeds, i m afraid

[RobTheBrat]

@Marmalade000000 Because he felt that he was about to leave. There is a special feeling/situation when you feel that you are about to die. You come nearer God. But I agree with you. It is amazing.

[semperwhisper]

@Marmalade000000 Yet, in this piece, you can feel all the pain, despair and sadness of a man leaving this world for ever. What a masterpiece.

[coralarch]

Was this composed by Pergolesi? I always thought it was composed by Mozart.

[DuckyClash]

Actually, it is not St-Marc's choir but the Choristers of Westminster Abbey ! Sorry !

[DuckyClash]

I think it's St-Marc's Children Choir - Lyon (France) that is singing in this version.

Outstanding !

[cvc322]

I love this version

[rm1475]

Pretty estructure, this is what i call sublime spirit. This was the first great challenge to the next composers

[beatleloko]

buena musica

[yukieriol]

Thanks a Lot :D

[TalesByTheOcean]

What haunting music.

[debartzen]

Muy inspirada interpretación.!

[adrianitube]

wonderful, thanks for the video

[zangetsu9196]

tiene algo de parecido con el requiem de mozart,no lo cren asi.

[tuxedomoon]

If Bach is the father of music he owes most of it to Buxtehude

[supraludwick83]

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, too bad Paisiello tried to sabotage your work, even not respecting you were dead for almost half a century!

[Sassydear]

Sublime! I fell in love with this version when I went to see "Amadeus".

[clairoobscur]

Very pleasant version of Pergolese's "Stabat Mater". Thanks

[italomar01]

Tension barroca!!

wonderful

[ibe8pud]

Thank you for this wunderfull video. I take it to my favorites! But are you sure that this picture is really Pergolesi? Or perhaps Buxtehude?

Sorry my english is not so good.

[KarlAmade]

Poor young man, died 26 years old =/

He could be a great composer, even greater than Bach, many good deep harmonies in this piece.

[supraludwick83]

Please!, greater than Bach no one!, not even Mozart nor Beethoven, Mozart's work is the miraculous, Beethoven's immortal, Wagner's the voice of God Himself, yet Bach is the father of all musik, no one stands to Bach, but that's my opinion...

[GrumpyOldTroll]

Handel is greater than Bach. ;-)

[Mozartiem]

No... After God is Mozart...

[yukieriol]

Or maybee Bach...... But I preffer Mozart :D

[FernandoCavuto]

While I love Bach and Mozart, their pieces are more religious in nature than the others mentioned, yet something like Pergolesi's Stabat Mater is more moving than many pieces produced by the aforementioned. Why? The theme of the piece. Non religious music can be very moving but not to the extent of religious music. Ibid for religious art. It moves the soul in the way that non-religious art doesn't. Just my opinion.

[yukieriol]

Bach is the MASTER CREATOR of the Contrapunctus.

[arichis]

Bach greatly admired Pergolesi. He took his "Psalm 51 - Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden" (BWV 1083) directly note for note from Pergolesi. (Nothing new as he did this with another composer he admired - Antonio Vivaldi).

Bach was certainly a great composer, but the debt he owes to Pergolesi and Vivaldi is immense.

[dolcevita2180]

im agree

[scarletwomannedm]

My favorite part of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. Thanks for posting this! :)

[KrismanX]

This is a great piece. I want to learn it.

[FoondCake]

Isn't this guy in the photo Dietrich Buxtehude?

[KaiserFranzM]

no, he's GiovanBattista Pergolesi...

[FoondCake]

What's weird is that many sites post this picture as that of Buxtehude. I guess it's just hard to be certain about portraits that old.

[KaiserFranzM]

my Urtext Edition of the Stabat Mater has this picture in the second page...another portrait is on the edition I have of Buxtehude's Free Organ Works

[HARMONICO101]

There is only one surviving image of Buxtehude, and we still aren't even sure it's him.

[ylkgypsy]

One of my favorite works ever. My brother and I did this as a duet with no vibrato like that; so pure and wonderful

[antlerose]

Ottimo. Questa è resa veramente come Dio comanda. Potete sentire tutti la malinconia e la disperazione del Maestro nelle cristalline armonie.

[tedhead60]

Perfect and beautiful in every way! I want this at my funeral. By the way, does anyone know where the choir is that does this piece? I'm thinking it's British but a friend tells me it's Italian and at the Vatican.

[KarlAmade]

I think actually this is played in Czechia or Austria about 1980-84

[anafram]

So sweet... so crystaline. The more I listen to Pergolesi, the harder I find it to stop.

Listen how the dissonances gradually develop (especially in the first part, "Moritur").

[corals505]

Thank you so much for posting this. I have been looking for this recording on YouTube. It is so very beautiful. Such a shame that Pergolesi died at the age of 27.

[ktx3marie]

this is amazing. each part sounds like one voice, not to mention the rhythm is perfect.

[nocturnefm]

I agree :)

[AishwaryaRai]

perfection

[Vieroitus]

Very nice performance.