Rancid - Ivory Coast

But Liszt was not only the son of his time - he stepped far forward. Already during his lifetime, especially in the second half of the 19th century, sincere manifestations of religious feelings were not in fashion, not to mention the whole century of unbelief that came after his death. The sheet with his convictions was extremely inconvenient neither for contemporaries, nor for posterity. Both of them tried to “fit” him under themselves. Everything that did not fit into these patterns was declared to be the errors of the composer himself. It was then that the theory was born about its supposedly inconsistency and inconsistency, which is completely untrue. Suffice it to say that the examples of Liszt's “anti-church” criticism, in particular the state of church music at that time, are not an indicator of doubt or disappointment, but, on the contrary, indisputable proof of deep faith and concern for everything related to it.