Psalm 130 - Musical Settings

Musical Settings

This psalm has been frequently set to music, as part of musical settings for the Requiem, especially under its Latin incipit De profundis:

  • Johann Sebastian Bach, as part of the cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131
  • Nicolaus Bruhns
  • Lili Boulanger
  • Hell (Blasphemy And The Master, from 2011 'Human Remains' album
  • Marc Antoine Charpentier
  • Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
  • Michel-Richard Delalande
  • Josquin des Prez (two settings)
  • John Dowland
  • Marcel Dupré
  • Andrea Gabrieli, as part of his Psalmi Davidici
  • Christoph Gluck
  • Sofia Gubaidulina
  • G.F. Handel
  • Stanley M. Hoffman
  • Arthur Honegger
  • Alan Hovhaness
  • Orlando di Lasso, as part of his Penitential Psalms
  • Franz Liszt
  • George Lloyd
  • Leevi Madetoja
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Thomas Morley
  • W.A. Mozart
  • Arne Nordheim (Clamavi for solo cello)
  • Vitezslav Novak
  • Arvo Pärt
  • Henry Purcell
  • Georg Reutter (a setting once attributed to Mozart)
  • Pedro Ruimonte
  • John Rutter, as part of Requiem, in English
  • Marc Sabat
  • Antonio Salieri
  • Johann Schein
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Heinrich Schütz
  • Roger Sessions
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
  • Virgil Thomson
  • Vangelis
  • Joachim Raff: ''De Profundis, Opus 141 (1867) for 8 part chorus and orchestra''

Some other works named De profundis, but containing texts not derived from the psalm include:

  • Frederic Rzewski based on the text of Oscar Wilde
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, in his Fourteenth Symphony op. 135 to texts of Federico García Lorca translated to Russian

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