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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