Christ (Liszt)

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Franz Liszt, painting by Carl Ehrenberg, 1868

Christ is an oratorio by Franz Liszt .

Emergence

It was written between 1862 and 1866 and, according to the legend of St. Elisabeth, is the second oratorio penned by the Hungarian composer. After Georg Herwegh and Peter Cornelius, who were favored by Liszt for the textbook, were canceled, Liszt himself put together the biblical passages to be set to music . After a few partial performances in 1866, the entire work was premiered on May 29, 1873 in Weimar. Even Liszt's friends reacted coolly to the work at the time. Performances at the beginning of the 20th century delighted Schönberg, Webern and Richard Strauss. The work has been performed more frequently since 1970 and has been recorded several times on CDs; a corrected new edition (Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel) was performed in Weimar and Görlitz in September 2006 and in Kassel in 2016. The work has a performance duration of approx. 150 minutes.

action

Liszt's Christ is not a setting of Jesus' path of life and suffering in the classical sense. Liszt's intention was to awaken Christian values ​​such as love and peace in him. Movement No. 12, Stabat mater dolorosa , which contains all the verses from the liturgical sequence of the Middle Ages, is a focal point in the work .

Sentence names

Motto - Veritatem autem facientes in caritate

  • Christmas Oratorio
    • No. 1 - Introduction: Rorate coeli (quotes the Gregorian melody)
    • No. 2 - Pastoral and Annunciation of the Angel
    • No. 3 - Stabat mater speciosa
    • No. 4 - Shepherd's play at the manger
    • No. 5 - March of the Three Kings
  • After Epiphany
    • No. 6 - The Beatitudes
    • No. 7 - Pater noster
    • No. 8 - Establishing the Church: Do It Peter
    • No. 9 - The miracle
    • No. 10 - Entry into Jerusalem
  • Passion and Resurrection

literature

  • Daniel Ortuño-Stühring: Music as a commitment. Christ Oratorios in the 19th Century (= Weimar Liszt Studies 6), Laaber, 2011, pp. 69–174.

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