Liszt - Ave maris stella, S34/1 (Hungarian State Chorus)

The abbé Liszt has always been a familiar figure. Less familiar is the fact that Liszt's preoccupation with religious thought goes right back to his teenage years in Paris-it is evident that Liszt's adolescence was lonely as there is not a single piece of evidence to suggest that the fifteen-year-old had any real friends his own age (his sole companion being his father) and this, in combination with his growing aversion to life as a touring curiosity, led the young Franz to become withdrawn, introspective, and deeply religious. Seeking solace in Christian literature, he had read the Lives of Saints, knew every page of the Imitation of Christ by the great mystic Thomas à Kempis, elevating some of its aphorisms to the level of moral precepts. The contradictions between Liszt’s perceived lifestyle and his devout intentions were a regular subject for speculation and even ridicule, but any proper investigation of Liszt’s life and letters reveals a deeply thoughtful and complex man, whose religious sensibilities must be taken absolutely seriously; if one reads Liszt’s passionate, occasionally forlorn letters to Marie d’Agoult from the early 1830s, especially those written during their enforced apartness, one does not see a man who was intent on enjoying his eligible-bachelor status but a young man who on having his first love affair thwarted at the age of seventeen spent days prostrate on the flagstones of St-Vincent-de-Paul, who in his eventual elopement with d’Agoult escaped the hullabaloo of Paris for the peaceful surroundings of the Swiss Alps, and who by the age of thirty-five, rejected his itinerant life as the world’s most famous virtuoso pianist-with its concomitant temptations and glamorous stardom, and its exhausting and disruptive rootlessness-in favour of a quieter and more settled existence in the provincial town of Weimar. This splendid work reflects this lesser-known side of Liszt.

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Liszt's religious music is amazing. Even being an atheist this music makes me feel like if I had a religion.

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I see

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Okay.

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@@segmentsAndCurves Okay.

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

Same here

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I see

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Liszt isn’t famous for his choral works, but how amazing and numinous they are. Thank you for uploading :)

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@Andrei - I'd like to thank you so much for your channel. Through it I have discovered a lot more amazing and beautiful music of my favorite composer, Franz Liszt, that I never even knew he composed. Keep on uploading!

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Majestically beautiful! Thanks you for sharing this piece, I love this so much :D

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I love this, absolutely love it

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

So majestic, and sacred!

I thank you so much for uploading. Pure Liszt.

[@exoladus9108]

Hello dear Andrei, first of all i love your videos :) Do you have a recording of faust symphonie arranged for 2 pianos?

[@lukasmiller486]

This piece could have been used for the church scene in I am David and the scene would have been just as powerful.

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Do Ave Maria S. 38!

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Who wrote this?

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Nice one

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Chopin

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God

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Messiaen’s uncle

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Repent and trust in Jesus. we deserve Hell for our sins. For example lying, lusing, saying God's name as a cuss word and stealing our just some examples of sin which we can all admit to doing at least one of those. For our sin we deserve death and Hell, but there is a way out. Repent anf trust in Jesus and you will be saved. Repentence is turning from sin. So repent and trust in Jesus. He will save you from Hell, and instead give you eternal life in Heaven. John 3:16 Romans 3:23😊❤❤😊❤