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Liszt - Vision a la Chapelle Sixtine
Identifier
024535
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Franz Liszt's À la Chapelle Sixtine (1862)
A description of the experience
Liszt - A la Chapelle Sixtine (Allegri-Mozart), Valerie Tryon
Liszt - Vision a la Chapelle Sixtine
This description occurred in a letter. Liszt is telling the Grand Duke about a new work of his the Vision a la Chapelle Sixtine and about the mystical experience that surrounded it
The vision in the Sistine chapel
Quoted in Franz Liszt The Virtuoso Years – Alan Walker
It seemed to me as if I saw Mozart and as if he looked back at time with gentle encouragement. Allegri was standing by his side, basking in the fame which his Misere now enjoyed… then there emerged from the background, next to Michelangelo’s Judgement Day, slowly, unutterably great, another shadow. Full of inspiration, I recognised it at once; for while he was still bound to this earth he had consecrated by brow with a kiss [reference to Beethoven]. He too had once sung his Misere and no human ear had ever heard such a deep and sublime sighing and sobbing.
The source of the experience
Liszt, FranzConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Extreme emotionGrief
Unrequited love
Suppressions
Believing in the spiritual worldInherited genes
Squash the big I am