18 ELEMENTS OF ANALYSIS AND TECHNICAL INTERPRETATIVE MARKINGS IN STABAT MATER BY GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI

Abstract

Through the natural, simple language, largely different from the operatic style and yet influenced by the expressive vocality of the opera, Stabat Materimpresses with the character of high spirituality, a nobility of the musical message. However, conservative critics blamed Pergolesi for the slightly romantic air of the work, a division between feeling and comprehesion. The melancholy of his latest creation, foretelling the death that would occur only a month after the completion of the composition, also reflects a psychological dimension of preclassicism. That is why it can be called the swan song, comparable to the Mozartian Requiem, composed in similar conditions, which is why some see in Pergolesi an Italian foreshadowing of the Mozartian spirit and destiny.