It is not known what occasion prompted Bruckner to compose this large-scale work or whether there was any performance in Bruckner's lifetime. The composition was presumably initiated during the St. Florian period (c. 1850) and completed in c. 1856 (at the latest 1858) in Linz, when Bruckner was studying with Simon Sechter.

Date of composition 1856 (1850-1856)
Premiered 1871, November 28th in Nuremberg, Germany
First published 1996
Type Psalm
Tonality A Major
Catalogue WAB 37
Instruments Chorus/Choir - SSAATTBB
Voice (Soprano)
Voice (Alto)
Voice (Tenor)
Voice (Bass)
Orchestra
Autotranslations beta Anton Bruckner: Psalm 146 en la majeur, WAB 37
Anton Bruckner: Psalm 146 in la maggiore, WAB 37
Anton Bruckner: Psalm 146 A-dur, WAB 37