42 (MWV A 15) Wie der Hirsch schreit (As pants the hart) is a cantata by Felix Mendelssohn, setting Psalm 42 in German.

It was written and published in 1837 (revised 1838) for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra.

Mendelssohn set the music to Luther's German translation of Psalm 42.

Indeed the highest point recent church music has reached at all.

"[1] 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.”[2]