Psalm 130
Psalm 130 ( Vulgate: 129 ) is often after his initial " Out of the depths I cry, Lord, to Thee " named in the Latin form De profundis.
It is also called The Sixth Penitential Psalm, one of the traditional prayers of the Catholic Church and the dead is recited, inter alia, in the funeral rite.
Text
More translation variants - even in other languages - as well as the Hebrew text can be found at Ps 130.1 to 8 EU.
Reception in music
The topic suggested already Renaissance composers such as Josquin Desprez and Orlando di Lasso to polyphonic works.
In the Baroque music of the text of the Psalm is the basis of the cantata From the depths I cry, O Lord, to thee ( BWV 131) by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Christoph Willibald Gluck's setting of Psalm was listed in 1787 at his own funeral. Stylistically, belongs to this period also the setting of Nicholas Betscher.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy edited in 1830 Psalm 130 on the version of Martin Luther's song Out of the depths I cry to you for voice and chorus (Op. 23 No. 1).
1834 Franz Liszt created the unfinished work De Profundis for Piano and Orchestra ( Searle 691 ), premiered in 1992. Heinrich Kaminski is to name his motet The Psalm 130 for mixed choir a cappella (1912).
The French composer Lili Boulanger set to music, 1917 Psalm: 130 Psaume you fond de l' abîme for alto and tenor solo, choir, organ and orchestra.
In the 20th century, the verses were also expressed the need and desperation of the people: in his eponymous poem of Expressionist Georg Trakl gloomy melancholy expression, Marcel Dupré gave processed the horrors of the First World War, Arthur Honegger set to music at the end of the Second World War, the De profundis as a prayer without hope liturgique in his symphony, Arvo Pärt composed the theme in 1980 shortly after his emigration from the Soviet Union. John Rutter added the psalm in English as a second set in his Requiem a. A setting is also available from the Swiss composer Paul Huber from the year 1984. Hanno Haag created a Psalm 130 for low voice and string orchestra ( 1972). Sofia Gubaidulina wrote in 1978 De Profundis for bayan solo without text.
Composer at the transition from the 20th to the 21st century, dealing with the issue, in 1998 Krzysztof Penderecki with his De Profundis from Seven Gates of Jerusalem and Carlo Pedini 1999 De Profundis for choir and four trombones. Also Volker bridegroom is mentioned, which I call his work Out of the depths, O Lord, to thee created in 1970 and revised in 1995.
The fact that all concert evenings with the theme can be disputed, the concert of the Munich Radio Orchestra was on 25 June 2004 under the direction of Marcello Viotti in Munich's Sacred Heart Church. It was titled de profundis.
Idan Raichel released in 2005 the album ממעמקים ( Mi'ma'amakim ), whose eponymous title song begins as the Psalm: "Out of the depths I cry, O Lord, to thee ( Mi'ma'amakim ).