Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Hob.XX:1) Orchestral version (Study Score)

Haydn, Joseph

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Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Hob.XX:1A) (Orchestral Version) (Study Score)

The orchestral work The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross was commissioned by a priestly Marqués for the cathedral city of Cadiz in southern Spain and was intended for an annual religious celebration.  This is reported in the preface to the oratorio version of the work published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1801 and based on Haydn’s own statements and was signed by him.

No other work by Haydn exists about which so much incomplete and false information as to its origins has been given.  The authors of the critical report to the work in the complete Haydn Edition (Henle-Verlag) were enabled to clarify the various stages of composition including the arrangement for string quartet and, later, as an oratorio.  The preface in this study score outlines this in more detail.

This orchestral version, written probably in the winter months of 1786 before the Paris Symphonies, and performed first in Cadiz on Good Friday 1787, was the foundation of Haydn’s fame all over Europe in the 1780s.  Haydn himself, as well as his contemporaries, considered this to be one of his best works. 

- Study score format 22.5 x 16.5 cm

- Urtext of the Haydn Complete Edition

- Full score & performance material available for hire (BA4650-72)

Unverricht, Hubert
TP92
9790006200733
Baerenreiter Germany

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