Table of 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.

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This study of a hitherto neglected aspect of Liszt and his music aims to restore a balanced view of both man and artist.