The Seven Last Words of Christ (Haydn) were not the original Latin but pietist poetry, written in German. Haydn was impressed with the new work and decided to improve on it, preparing his own choral version. He had the assistance of Baron Gottfried van Swieten, who revised the lyrics used by Friebert. This was the first work in a serial collaboration with van Swieten as librettist that continued with the later oratorios "The Creation" and "The Seasons". The choral version was privately premiered in Vienna on 26 March 1796 before an audience of the nobility, under the sponsorship of the Gesellschaft der Associierten. The public premiere was
The Creation of the World and Other Business over Britain and Europe between 1969 and 1974. Miller reworked the play into a musical, "Up From Paradise", which opened in 1974 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2004, Citizens of the Universe's production of Creation of the World and Other Business was banned from playing at Greenville Technical College. In 2014, the Theater Department at Orange Coast College put on a rock and roll jukebox musical version of the play. The Creation of the World and Other Business The Creation of the World and Other Business is a play by Arthur Miller first performed in 1972.