Pasquale Cafaro (1708-1787) - Stabat mater a quattro voci (1784)

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Composer: Pasquale Cafaro (1708-1787)
Work: Stabat Mater | Musica a quattro voci e a due in canone | con violini, viola, e basso (1784)
Performers: Paola Bսsci (soprano); Maria Luisa Sanchez Cаrbone (mezzo-soprano); Ars Cаntica; Il Viаggio Musicale; Giovanni Acciаi (conductor)
Painting: Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587-1625) - Le Jeune Violoniste, ou La douleur d'Aminte
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Painting: Unknown artist (18th Century) - Portrait of Pasquale Cafaro
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Pasquale Cafaro [Caffarelli, Caffariello, Caffriello, Cafora]
(San Pietro in Galatina, 8 February 1715 - Naples, 25 October 1787)
Italian teacher and composer. In 1735 he entered at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, where his teachers included Lorenzo Fago and Leonardo Leo. He remained in Naples all his life, and between 1745 and 1771 established himself as a composer of oratorios, operas, cantatas and church music. On 11 July 1759 he succeeded Girolamo Abos as secondo maestro of his former conservatory in a post he held until his death. On 25 August 1768 he was appointed as a 'maestro di cappella soprannumerario' of the royal chapel in Naples. After the death of Giuseppe de Majo, 'primo maestro' of the royal chapel, he assumed that position on 21 December 1771. He also continued as 'maestro di musica della regina', later becoming 'maestro di musica della real camera'. As a teacher, his most notable student was Giacomo Tritto. As a composer, the majority of his works were sacred in the lyrical Neapolitan style of the mid-18th century. His output includes eight operas, 15 secular cantatas, six oratorios, three Masses, six Kyries, a Requiem, four motets, 12 Psalms, a litany, a Stabat mater (his best-known work), and three antiphons.