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Liszt - Liebestraum - Love's Dream
Identifier
024534
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
from Wikipedia
Liebesträume (German for Dreams of Love) is a set of three solo piano works (S.541/R.211) by Franz Liszt, published in 1850. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath. In 1850, two versions appeared simultaneously as a set of songs for high voice and piano, and as transcriptions for piano two-hands. The two poems by Uhland and the one by Freiligrath depict three different forms of love.
A description of the experience
Franz Liszt - Liebestraum - Love Dream [3]
Liebestraum No. 3 is the last of the three that Liszt wrote, and the most popular. It can be considered as split into three sections, each divided by a fast cadenza requiring dexterous finger work and a very high degree of technical ability.
Freiligrath's poem for the famous third Notturno is about unconditional mature love ("Love as long as you can!", "O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst").
Liszt, Franz: Liebestraum No. 1
Uhland's Hohe Liebe (exalted love) is saintly or religious love: the "martyr" renounces worldly love and "heaven has opened its gates".
Liszt: Liebestraum No. 2 in E major (Balázs Szokolay - piano)
The second song Seliger Tod (blessed death) is often known by its first line ("Gestorben war ich", "I had died"), and evokes erotic love; "dead" could be a metaphor here referring to what is known as "la petite mort" in French ("I was dead from love's bliss; I lay buried in her arms; I was wakened by her kisses; I saw heaven in her eyes").
The source of the experience
Liszt, FranzConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
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Activities and commonsteps
Activities
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Extreme emotionSuppressions
Believing in the spiritual worldInherited genes
LOVE
Squash the big I am