About the composer
According to the CD this is a work by Meingosus Gaelle, but Torsten Mario
Augenstein informed me that his research on life and works of Ernestus Weinrauch
leads to the conclusion that not Gaelle, but Weinrauch should be named as
composer. Torsten found two original manuscripts of the Stabat Mater with the
name Weinrauch on it. Father Ernestus Weinrauch (baptized Faustinus) was born in
1730 and stayed a large part of his life in the monastery of Zwiefalten,
Oberschwaben, Germany, where he composed masses, a requiem, a number of Salve
Regina and Ave Regina compositions, several offertories and oratoria. He died
there in 1793.
Meingosus Gaelle (1752 - 1828) was born in Buch bei Tettnang, Germany. In 1771 he entered
the Weingarten monastery, where he stayed until it was closed in 1802. He was a doctor of
theology and of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics and physics. He wrote a book on
his experiments with electrical capacitors. Beside all that he composed numerous works:
songs, church music, chamber music and a comic opera. He was a virtuoso player of the harp
and the harpsichord.
| Date | 1791 |
| Performers | Soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed choir and orchestra |
| Length | 32.27 minutes |
| Particulars | The Stabat Mater recorded on this CD, dedicated to the composers who lived and worked in the Weingarten convent, is not complete. Clearly it was abridged to leave some space for the other compositions. Five stanzas are missing. The remaining piece is divided in 6 sections. The composer seems to have been a happy man, for his work sounds rather optimistic for such a sad subject. The style reminds me of Schubert and Mozart. |
| Textual variations | The stanzas 5 to 8, and 17 are omitted, as is the final
"Amen". The "Analecta"-version of the text is used, with one change: - Stanza 16, line 2: not "Passionis eius sortem" but "Passionis fac consortem" |
| CD | Orchestrola ORC 77328: Musik in oberschwäbischen Klöstern (Music in Upper Swabia monasteries) |
| bout this CD | The third CD in a series intended to preserve the music that
was composed and played in monasteries in Upper Swabia, a region in southern Germany. This
one has music from the Weingarten monastery. Recorded in 1994. |
| Orchestra | SWF Symphonie Orchesters Baden-Baden |
| Choir | Oberschwäbische Kammerchor |
| Conductor | Erno Seifritz |
| Soloists | Ulrike Johanna Jöris, soprano Ruth Sandhoff, alto Hans-Jürgen Schöpflin, tenor Egbert Junghanns, baritone |
| Other works | Meingosus Gaelle: Huc venite, piae mentes + Sanctorum
meritis + Regina coeli + Salve Regina + Alleluja, concussum est mare Christoph Vogel: Gloria et honore Meingosus Rottach: Magnificat + Alma redemptoris Aemilian Kayser: Magnificat Bernard Wahl: Ave Regina coelorum Leonhard Rieff: In omnem terram |
| Added | Unknown GAE 01 |
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