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Pieta Signore
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Browse piano sheets by Alessandro Stradella on Zen Virtual Piano. Alessandro Stradella is primarily known today for his vocal works — cantatas, oratorios and operas — though, in a conversation published on Alberto Sanna’s site, his instrumental compositions, especially those for two and three instruments, are called equally exceptional. Like many colleagues before the advent of copyright law, Stradella did not deal with the often unscrupulous music publishers and entrusted the circulation of his works to manuscript copies only. After his premature death, about 300 exemplars ended up scattered across more than 50 libraries and collections. The same source says that the most famous of all pieces attributed to him, the song “Pietà, Signore,” was not among those pieces, for the simple reason that it is not by Stradella. The Italian Dizionario Biografico on Treccani agrees, describing the famous prayer “Pietà, Signore, di me dolente,” circulated by François-Joseph Fétis from 1833, as a paradoxical forgery whose success was favored by the composer’s notoriety. The song is therefore a historical attribution to him, not his own work.
Browse piano sheets by Alessandro Stradella on Zen Virtual Piano.
Alessandro Stradella is primarily known today for his vocal works — cantatas, oratorios and operas — though, in a conversation published on Alberto Sanna’s site, his instrumental compositions, especially those for two and three instruments, are called equally exceptional.
Like many colleagues before the advent of copyright law, Stradella did not deal with the often unscrupulous music publishers and entrusted the circulation of his works to manuscript copies only. After his premature death, about 300 exemplars ended up scattered across more than 50 libraries and collections.
The same source says that the most famous of all pieces attributed to him, the song “Pietà, Signore,” was not among those pieces, for the simple reason that it is not by Stradella. The Italian Dizionario Biografico on Treccani agrees, describing the famous prayer “Pietà, Signore, di me dolente,” circulated by François-Joseph Fétis from 1833, as a paradoxical forgery whose success was favored by the composer’s notoriety. The song is therefore a historical attribution to him, not his own work.
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The conversation on Alberto Sanna’s site says he is primarily known for vocal works: cantatas, oratorios and operas.
He entrusted their circulation to manuscript copies only, and about 300 exemplars ended up scattered across more than 50 libraries and collections after his premature death.
Both sources say no: the famous prayer is not by Stradella, and the Dizionario Biografico calls it a paradoxical forgery circulated by Fétis from 1833.