Two legends (Liszt)
Two legends , two solo - piano pieces , the Franz Liszt with whom he composed about 1863 and its patron saints Francis of Assisi and St. Francis of Paola put a musical monument. He dedicated the first to La prédication aux oiseaux and the second to the piece Marchant sur les flots .
history
In 1861 Franz Liszt (1811–1886) moved his center of life to Italy, and lived there - after he had already entered the Order of the Franciscans (OFM) in 1858 - in the Madonna del Rosario monastery near Rome. After his intended marriage to Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein failed due to the resistance of her family, he decided to stay in Rome anyway and devoted himself increasingly to compositions with religious themes and church music. His sacred works are evidence of his endeavors to realize a “musique humanitaire” that he had dreamed of since 1834 under the influence of the Abbé de Lamennais .
In 1865 he underwent tonsure , received the four minor orders (which are not connected with the obligation of celibacy) and was allowed to call himself " Abbé " from then on . He himself wrote in a letter: “My penchant for Catholicism stems from my childhood and has become a lasting feeling that dominates me.” During this time, his two “Francis” legends emerged.