Amon Amarth - Where Death Seems To Dwell

Hence the final coming to religion, regarded by contemporaries as a “180-degree turn”. For some reason, it was completely overlooked that Liszt was always a deeply religious person; some of his caustic remarks relate to the church hierarchy, but not to the Christian teaching itself, and testify only to the fact that he was in pain, seeing "imperfection in the perfect." Criticism of the Church and the desire for reform of church music speaks much more about Liszt's Christianity than even his acceptance of a spiritual rank! He said best of all about his relationship with the official Church: “They will not trust me, for I wrote not only the Dante symphony, but also the Faust symphony, while the Divine comedy Dante and Goethe's Faust bring us eventually along various paths to the same heavenly peaks. ”