CHAPTER VII.

CONSOLATION.

Liszt’s Great Resolve--Reply to a Scoffer--Religion and Music--Religion at the Foundation of Culture--George Sand’s Testimony--Relations of Religion and Music--Music in the Catholic and Protestant Churches--Peculiarities of the Musical Services--Influence of the Catholic Church on Music--A Gradual Lowering of the Standard--Opera Music in the Church--Liszt’s Ambition to Reform it--His early Piety--Views on Church Music--The Religious Element in his Compositions--The Hungarian Coronation Mass--The Choral Mass--Departure to Rome--Takes Orders--Why he did not remain--Germany his Field for Work. 121-135