About the composer
Giovanni Benedetto Platti was born in 1697 in Padua, Italy. At the age of 25 he migrated
to Würzburg, Germany, where he became a member of the court chapel of Fürstbischof
Johann von Schönborn who was a great lover of music. Platti was not only a good singer
and player of various instruments, he also got well known for his compositions. He wrote a
number of works for cello, six harpsichord concerts and twelve harpsichord sonatas, six
flute sonatas, and among his vocal works three masses, a requiem en the Stabat Mater. He
died in Würzburg in 1763.
| Date | ca. 1750? |
| Performers | Bass, 2 hobos, 2 violins and basso continuo |
| Length | 6.24 minutes |
| Particulars | Platti used only the first two stanzas, but developed these into a full grown bass aria. |
| Textual variations | Only the first two stanzas are sung. |
| CD | Conventus Musicus CM 1015: Musik im Dom zu Würzburg |
| About this CD | The idea of this CD is to compare the music of the Italian
Platti, living in Germany, with that of the German Hasse, living at the same time in
Italy. Recorded at the Dom, Würzburg, in July 1991. I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands, 1998 |
| Orchestra | Domorchester |
| Conductor | Siegfried Koesler |
| Soloists | Matthias Rettner, bass |
| Other works | Giovanni Benedetto Platti: Hobo concerto in G Giovanni Benedetto Platti: Messa a 4 voci in A Johann Adolf Hasse: Te Deum in D |
| Added | 1998 PLA 01 |
E-mail:
stabatmater@dds.nl