Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Stabat Mater

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born in 1710 in Jesi and died in Pozzuoli in 1736, struck down by consumption when only twenty six. Unlucky as far as his health was concerned, he was gifted, by way of compensation, with a spontaneous and powerful musicality which was immediately communicative. His fame as a composer spread for and wide so rapidly that he was imitated by many, and numerous works were wrongly attributed to him.