Franz Liszt
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Poetic and Religious Harmonies), S.173, is a cycle of piano pieces written by Franz Liszt at Woronińce (Voronivtsi, the Polish-Ukrainian country estate of Liszt's
Structure#
The ten compositions which make up this cycle are: #Invocation (completed at Woronińce) #Ave Maria (transcription of choral piece written in 1846) #Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (‘The Blessing of God in Solitude’, completed at Woronińce); #Pensée des morts (‘In Memory of the Dead’, reworked version of earlier individual composition, Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (1834)) #Pater Noster (transcription of choral piece written in 1846) #Hymne de l’enfant à son réveil (‘The Awaking Child’s Hymn’, transcription of choral piece written in 1846) #Funérailles (October 1849) (‘Funeral’) #Miserere, d’après Palestrina (after Palestrina) #La lampe du temple (Andante lagrimoso) #Cantique d’amour (‘Hymn of Love’, completed at Woronińce)
Reception#
Critic Patrick Rucker wrote in 2016 that “in Liszt’s engagement with the poetry of Alphonse de Lamartine, there is a naked intensity, an urgent, in-your-face, lapel-grasping earnestness that one doesn’t find, say, in the Années de pèlerinage.”
- Composer
- Franz Liszt