Revolution and Religion in the Music of Liszt

Contents

• Part I :
• 1. 1830: a revolutionary symphony;
• 2. 1834: Lamennais and Words of a Believer;
• 3. 1848: revolutions and a Mass;
• 4. Weimar: Liszt, the Church and Wagner;
• 5. 1861: Rome, Cardinal Hohenlohe and Princess Wittgenstein;
• 6. 1865: minor orders;
• Part II :
• 7. Liszt and Palestrina: the plan to reform church music;
• 8. The Masses;
• 9. The psalms;
• 10. The oratorios St Elizabeth and Christus;
• 11. The shorter choral works;
• 12. The late religious works and Les Morts;
• Part III :
• 13. Liszt's programmatic use of fugue;
• 14. Liszt's Cross motif and the Piano Sonata in B minor;
• 15. Liszt's path as a composer.