Super flumina Babylonis (Offertory)
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General information
Offertory for Pentecost XX
Source of text: Psalm 136:1 (Vulgate)
Settings by composers
- Aiblinger SATB
- Orlando di Lasso
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Michel-Richard de Lalande SATBB & 5-part strings
- Antonio Savetta a 8
- Jeffrey Quick
- Nicolas Gombert a 4
- Philippe de Monte a 8
- Tomás Luis de Victória a 8
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier SSB, 2 recorders, bc
- Luca Marenzio a 12
Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above
- Johann Kaspar Aiblinger — Super flumina Babylonis, Op. 9, No. 9
Text and translations
Latin text Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion. |
English translation Over the waters of Babylon, there we sat and wept, as we reminisced about Sion. |
Italian translation Sopra i fiumi di Babilonia, là sedemmo e piangemmo, quando ripensammo a Sion. |