Baerenreiter Verlag The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross Hob.XX:2 - Haydn - Vocal Score, Urtext Edition The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross Hob.XX:2 - Haydn - Vocal Score, Urtext Edition

Composer: Joseph Haydn
Editor: Hubert Unverricht
Format: Vocal Score, Urtext edition
Language: German

Haydn originally composed "The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross Hob.XX:2" as Passion music for orchestra. He also made an arrangement for string quartet and oversaw a piano reduction at the same time. These three versions were published in Vienna in the summer of 1787.
Using this as a basis Haydn wrote a vocal version for soloists, choir and orchestra Hob. XX:2. This appeared only in 1796, as a commission for the priest Jose Saenz de Santamaria, Marques de Valde-Inigo, from Cadiz. The work was probably performed on Good Friday 1787 in the Santa Cueva chapel below the parish church of Nuestra Senora del Rosario. The commission was to compose seven slow meditative movements, one for each of Jesus' last words.
This edition of the vocal version is based on the Urtext of the G. Henle Complete Edition "Works of Joseph Haydn".
The performance material is available on hire.