Les Sept Paroles du Christ sur la Croix

Les Sept Paroles du Christ sur la Croix (composed 1859) is a musical setting of The Seven Last Words of Christ by César Franck, though the name in French often refers to an equally well or better known homonymous work by Charles Gounod Les sept paroles de N.S. Jesus-Christ sur la croix.

The work was never performed during Franck's lifetime and was only discovered in 1955, when the University of Liège acquired an autograph score from a private owner. The work's structure resembles Franck's Les Béatitudes, consisting of a prologue followed by individual movements setting sayings, or in this case sometimes single phrases, of Jesus.