Sacri Monti Mario Bürki

Artikel / Title: SACRI MONTI
Besetzung / Instrumentation: HARMONIE/BLASORCHESTER
Genre: Originalwerke & Wettbewerbsstücke,Schweizer Hits
Dauer / Duration: 14:00
Erscheinungsjahr / Year of Production: 2009
Komponist / Composer: Bürki Mario

The piece Sacri Monti portrays some of the stops along the route of the Visperterminen chapel trail. The last verse of the hymn Stabat Mater also serves as a source of inspiration: the Stabat Mater (from the beginning of the hymn: Stabat mater dolorosa. Latin for the sorrowful mother stood weeping) is a medieval hymn in which the Virgin Mary sings of her sorrow for the crucified.The hymn's author remains unknown but it has been attributed to Pope Innocent the Third (died 1216), as well as the Franciscan monk Lacopone da Todi (died 1306) and Johannes Bonaventura (died 1274) amongst others. The Stabat Mater is sung or prayed as a sequence on the festival of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary (15. September) as well as on the first Friday in Passion week.