Wie der Hirsch schreit-The Psalms inspired Mendelssohn throughout his working li...(+)
Wie der Hirsch schreit-The Psalms inspired Mendelssohn throughout his working life and aside from a cappella settings he left behind five great orchestral Psalms. Schumann assesed in 1837 that 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.'