CONCERT STABAT MATER DE DVORAK

Ensemble Sequentiae, under the direction of Mathieu Bonnin, celebrates its 10th anniversary with the work that marked its first decade: Dvo?ák's Stabat Mater.

Intimately linked to the family tragedy that befell Anton Dvo?ak, the loss of his newborn daughter, the composer composed a first version of the work between February 19 and May 7, 1876. This version featured four soloists, a chorus and piano, and Dvo?ák set the work aside without tackling the orchestration. Subsequently, the artist lost his two other children within a few weeks of each other, his daughter R??ena on August 13 and his eldest son Otakar on September 8, 1877. It was then that he returned to the manuscript he had abandoned the previous year. He added three movements (numbers 5, 6 and 7) and orchestrated the entire work between October and November 1877. The composer had overcome his own suffering to produce a work imbued with gushing, spontaneous emotion.

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