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 Men Who Make the Music Pilmer, webmaster of the official Devo website, indicated a DVD release by MVD later in the year. The DVD was released the following August, including a bonus feature of Devo's 1996 reunion show at the Sundance Film Festival. A concert film of Devo on their 1979 tour of Japan was also titled "The Men Who Make the Music", and features live performances of "Secret Agent Man", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Too Much Paranoias", "Uncontrollable Urge", "Mongoloid" and "Jocko Homo", filmed at Nippon Budokan. The performance of "Red Eye" from this show is also on the official "The Men Who