Orchestra Solo
Orchestra + ...
For beginners
Composers

Psalm 42

Composer: Mendelssohn Felix

Instruments: Voice Soprano Tenor Bass Mixed chorus Orchestra

Tags: Psalms Religious music

#Parts
#Arrangements

Download free scores:

Complete Score PDF 22 MB
Complete Score PDF 7 MB
Complete score PDF 16 MB
Complete score PDF 3 MB

Parts for:

Orchestra
AllViolinViolaTrumpetTromboneTimpaniOrganOboeFrench hornFluteClarinetCelloBassoon

Arrangements:

Other

Complete. Piano (Unknown)Chor. Wie der Hirsch schreit (No.1). Pump organ + Piano (Reinhard, August)
Wikipedia
Psalm 42, Op. 42 (MWV A 15) "Wie der Hirsch schreit" ("As pants the Hart") is a composition by Felix Mendelssohn composed and published in 1837 (revised 1838) for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra.
Mendelssohn set the music to Martin Luther's German translation of Psalm 42 from the Book of Psalms.
At the work's first performance, in Leipzig on 1 January 1838, Mendelssohn conducted the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, with Clara Novello as soprano. He was the orchestra's musical director from 1835 until his death in 1847.
Schumann opined in 1837 that Mendelssohn's setting of Psalm 42 was the "highest point that he [Mendelssohn] reached as a composer for the church. Indeed the highest point recent church music has reached at all." Mendelssohn himself described it as “my best sacred piece… the best thing I have composed in this manner”, a work “I hold in greater regard than most of my other compositions.”