Stabat Mater Pour deux Soprani, Tenor et Basse et Choeur à quatre ou cinq Voix. Dédié à Son Exce. Mr. Emmanuel Fernandez Varela . avec Accompagnement de Piano ou d'Orgue par T. Labarre . Prix La Partition Complette 25f .Chaque partie de Chant separée 4.50c. Chaque partie de Choeur separée 2.5c. [Piano-vocal score]

Folio. Disbound. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto thematic catalogue, verso blank), 77, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Publisher's autograph facsimile signature handstamp to blank foot of title. Slightly worn and soiled; dampstaining to blank lower margins and upper outer corners; occasional light foxing. First Edition, second issue of the second version (thematic incipit no. 10 with 10 measures and with multiple prices to title). Rognoni p. 458, no. 8. "When, after the death of Varela, the original version of the Stabat mater fell into the hands of the Parisian publisher Aulagnier, who printed it and arranged a performance, Rossini, partly at the prompting of Troupenas and partly because the work published by Aulagnier was a composite, disowned this version and decided to complete the work himself. The revised Stabat mater was ready by the end of 1841. The first performance, arranged by the brothers Léon and Marie Escudier, was in Paris at the Théâtre Italien on 7 January 1842. It was received with enormous enthusiasm. The first Italian performance, at Bologna, followed in March under the direction of Donizetti." Philip Gossett in Grove Music Online. …