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The Seven Last Words from the Cross Passion music by Heinrich Schutz SATTB - Sheet Music
By Heinrich Schutz
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The Seven Last Words from the Cross
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Passion music. Composed by Heinrich Schutz. Edited by Günter Graulich. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Cycles: Schutz: Die Sieben Worte & Passionen SWV 478-481. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Schutz. Genres / texts frequently set to music: Sacred vocal music. Sacred vocal music, Passions, Lent and Passiontide, Holy Week, Stations of the cross (Seven Words), Mourning, death. Full score. Composed circa 1645. SWV 478. Duration 12 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 20.478/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2047800).ISBN 9790007036881. 8.27 x 11.69 inches. Key: E phrygian. Language: German/English.
The "Seven Last Words from the Cross" by Heinrich Schütz defies straightforward categorization. The title in the original German is "Die Sieben Worte unseres lieben Erlösers und Seeligmachers Jesu Christi so Er am Stamm des Heil: Creutzes gesprochen, ganz beweglich gesetzt von Her Heinrich Schütz". The compilation of the Seven Words from the Cross from the four gospels was frequently set as devotional music over the centuries by different composers. Heinrich Schütz’s setting can best be attributed to the category of ‘Historia’ or ‘Histories’. Framed by a five-part chorale arrangement ("Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund") and an instrumental Symphonia, the last section of the Passion story (also in a compilation from the Gospels) is sung by different voices, with the Seven Words of Jesus given a string accompaniment (we are immediately reminded of Bach!). The text of the Evangelist is divided between different vocal ranges, and sometimes even very effectively given to the tutti ensemble. It is a moving, intensive, yet peaceful setting.
Its similarity to the later Passion oratorio probably contributed to the fact that the Seven Last Words played a central role in the rediscovery of the works of Heinrich Schütz in the 19th century.
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