Musical settings of The Seven Last Words of Christ

The Seven Last Words of Christ refers to the seven short phrases uttered by Jesus on the cross, as gathered from the four Christian Gospels. The Crucifixion of Jesus has served as inspiration to a great many visual artists and composers over the centuries. In particular, at least 16 composers have written musical settings of the Seven Last Words, for various combinations of voice and/or instruments.[1]

The best known of these settings is probably the instrumental setting by Joseph Haydn (see below), who produced two different arrangements of his own work—one of them for choir—and approved a third.

Chronological list of settings

Early Latin motet settings of the ultima septem verba can be found from 1500.[2][3]

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

See also

References

  1. ↑ Church Music – 1973  – Page 10 "Eventually these settings of the Seven Words became a separate form of Passion music. Perhaps the most outstanding work in this genre in the Lutheran tradition is the work of Heinrich Schtüz.10 A number of composers in the first generations ..."
  2. ↑ Literature, Music, Fine Arts – 22–24 1989 pp. 189–190 "Langrock, Klaus. Die sieben Worte Jesu am Kreuz. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Passionsmusik (Ph.D., Musicology, Bochum, 1987) ...The present book, a dissertation of the University of Bochum, deals with settings of the Seven Words on the Cross, which are ... France and Italy since 1500, published or unpublished, which are based on the text of all the Words on the Cross."
  3. ↑ Raymond Dittrich, Die sieben letzten Worte Jesu in der Musik (2001)
  4. ↑ Tre ore dell'Agonia di N.S. Gesù Cristo on YouTube
  5. ↑ Tre ore dell'Agonia on YouTube
  6. ↑ Knut Nystedts choral music
  7. ↑ "Browse sheet music by Composer"
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