Mark K. Ehlert on the Seven Last Words:
>I looked up this work in the "New Groves" dictionary, the Hoboken catalog
>of works, and - indirectly via these sources - the first edition. They all
>agree that Haydn is the one who arranged the work, and certainly sanctioned
>it. Of course these sources are all a few years old, so maybe something
>has come to light recently.
I always thought the quartet version was the original and the full-blown
one the "arrangement."
Live and learn.
Steve Schwartz