Item #38232 Stabat Mater. Musica a quattro voci, e a due in canone con violini, viola, e basso ... dedicata Alle LL. RR. MM. di Ferdinando IV, Re delle due Sicilie & & & e di Maria Carolina d'Austria Regina Sua Real Consorte. [Score]. Pasquale 1715/ CAFARO.

Stabat Mater. Musica a quattro voci, e a due in canone con violini, viola, e basso ... dedicata Alle LL. RR. MM. di Ferdinando IV, Re delle due Sicilie & & & e di Maria Carolina d'Austria Regina Sua Real Consorte. [Score]

Napoli: [without imprint], 1785.

Tall folio. Sewn in signatures and laid into early hand-patterned wrappers. 2ff. (title with vignette of musical instruments, dedication), 56 pp. Engraved throughout.

Wrappers soiled and worn at edges; endpapers soiled and frayed at edges. Edges slightly soiled. A very good tall, untrimmed, wide-margined copy overall.

First Edition. RISM A/I/2 C 22

"[Cafaro] was admitted to the conservatory under a five-year contract, studying under primo maestro Nicola Fago, secondo maestro Leonardo Leo and, after 1737, with Leo’s successor Lorenzo Fago. He remained in Naples all his life, and between 1745 and 1771 established himself as a respected composer of oratorios, operas, cantatas and church music... Between 1763 and 1766 Cafaro conducted operas by Hasse and Traetta, among others, at the Teatro S Carlo. Public recognition, and especially his compositions for court events (including cantatas for the king’s birthday), led to his appointment on 25 August 1768 as a maestro di cappella soprannumerario of the royal chapel; he was also music master to Queen Maria Carolina. After the death of Giuseppe de Majo, primo maestro of the royal chapel, the incumbent vice- maestro Giuseppe Marchitti was denied succession and, without the customary public competition, the position given to Cafaro on 21 December 1771; he also continued as maestro di musica della regina, later becoming maestro di musica della real camera. After assuming the leadership of the royal chapel he stopped writing operas and produced primarily sacred music. A Stabat mater, dedicated to the king and queen and printed in Naples in 1785, became his best-known work outside Italy... In the Neapolitan tradition Cafaro was one of the essential links between the generation of Leo and Durante and that of Cimarosa and Paisiello." Hanns-Bertold Dietz in Grove Music Online.

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