As sete últimas palavras de Cristo na cruz by Haydn, De (2022/2022), Parrocchia di Santa Maria del Soccorso, Cormons, Itália

Christ's seven last words on the cross were set to music by numerous composers from the mid-1600s. In 1787 Haydn received the commission to accompany the Good Friday ceremony in the Church of the Santa Cueva of Cadiz in Spain. It had to be instrumental music for orchestra that inspired meditation on the sacred scripture of passion. The same year this version for string quartet was born, which also in this case will accompany sacred texts and texts by José de Saramago, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.