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Show FMi'.y iwjJiiiL -xJ--'-' 0NOISlm:i:.:J:-,, - Although the greatest of Italian composers. com-posers. Rossini, lived for twenty-elx years after he wrote "Stabat Mater," It waa the last of his ambitious ' efforts. He himself liked to call this work his masterpiece; he was willing- to rest his fame aa.a pomposer upon the one oratorio. ora-torio. "Stabat Mater.". Thla from the author of "William Tell." "Otello." "11 Barblere dl 61virlla,M "Tancredl" and other notable works Is an Indication of how highly he esteemed "Stabat Mater." Ma-ter." ' ' ' " ' - Rossini began composing at 16. when his. first work, a canUta, was performed per-formed in public Between 1815 and 1823 he wrote nearly twenty operas and he was but 81 years old when ha was appointed ap-pointed director of the Theater Italian In Paris. It waa in 1829 that his "William "Wil-liam Tell" waa produced. "Stabat Mater" came thirteen years later. In 1842, when the composer had reached tha ripe fullness of his marvelous powers. pow-ers. Rossini died In Paris, November 13. 1868.. "Stabat, Mater" has been aptly described de-scribed as an oratorio in which religious relig-ious words are set to operatic music The complete oratorio, which is to be given In Salt'Lake In 1U entirety for the first time In the West, by the Con-ried Con-ried Metropolitan Opera company op April 4, contains nine numbers.- They are the introduction. "Cuius Anlmam, . "Qui Est Homo," "Pro Peccatls," "Ella Mater," "Sancta- Mater Istud Agaa." "Fac ut Portum." "Inflammatus" and 1 "In Semniterna Saecula." The principal princi-pal singers in the Salt Lake production will be Mme. Nbrdica, Mme Homer and Messrs. Dlppel and Journet. . ! In the first part of the programme. "Stabat Mater" constituting the sec-, ond part, there will be arlaa by other celebrated artists, including Mme. De Macchl and Miss Bella Alten. as well as choral and orcheetral number. ' It is regarded as most unfortunate that the Conried 'company will be able to give but one concert here. It is Impossible to. give more, however, as the grand opera season Is to open In San Francisco Fran-cisco on Thursday evening. April , and the company must leave on Its special train about midnight of Tuesday.,- - ' The seat sale Is now In progress at the music store of the Carstensen & Anson company on Main street.. . - |