Symphonie-Kantate B-Dur Nr. 2-Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms and indeed all pieces vocal and instrumental are composed in the words ‘Everything which has breath Praise the Lord’; one understands by this that first the instruments give praise in their own way and then the chorus and the individual voices.'