Antonín Dvořák:
Psalm 149 for chorus and orchestra, Op. 79, B 154 (with Score)
Composed: 13 January - 24 February 1879, revised July (?) 1887
Chorus: Prager Philharmonischer Chor
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic
Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek

At the beginning of 1879 Dvořák was approached by the Hlahol choral society with the request that he write a new choral work. The composer put his work on his String Quartet in E flat major to one side and started writing his piece for Hlahol. From the Book of Psalms he chose No. 149, writing a setting for male choir with orchestral accompaniment. The text of his psalm is akin to a hymn in praise of God, which is also reflected in Dvořák’s conception – the entire work is ceremonial and jubilant in mood. When, eight years on, Dvořák was revising earlier pieces he had not yet published, he decided to rework his Psalm to some extent as well. Apart from minor alterations in the orchestral score, the chief revision concerned the choral parts, which he rewrote for mixed choir. It was in this definitive form that the piece was published by Simrock in 1888.

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