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This composer’s opera La serva padrona (“lah SAIR-vuh pah-DROH-nuh”) launched the War of the Buffoons. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Italian composer. While dying of tuberculosis at age 26, he wrote the 1736 Stabat Mater for which he is best known.
ANSWER: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“jo-VAHN-nee baht-TEES-tah pair-go-LAY-zee”)
[10e] J. S. Bach reworked Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater (“STAH-baht MAH-turr”) into Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden (“TILL-guh HURK-stur MY-nuh ZOON-dun”), one of his over 200 pieces in this genre of narrative vocal works. The name of this genre, which can be secular or sacred, comes from the Italian for “sung.”
ANSWER: cantata [accept psalm cantata; accept parody cantata]
[10h] From 1753 to 1790, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater was performed 87 times as part of this Parisian concert series, which also gave the public premiere of Mozart’s Paris Symphony. Anne Danican Philidor (“Anne da-nee-KAHN fee-lee-DOR”) founded this series in 1720, making it the first major public concert series outside of England.
ANSWER: Concert Spirituel [or Spiritual Concerts]
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