Bard Music Festival: Weekend Two

“Franz Liszt and His World.” Orchestral and chamber concerts, preconcert talks, panel discussions, symposium, and special events. Leon Botstein, Christopher H. Gibbs, and Robert Martin, artistic directors. Admission charged.

Faith and Politics

In Liszt’s later years, spirituality and religion played an increasingly important role. He became an abbé by taking minor orders in the Catholic Church in 1865, and produced numerous choral works on religious themes. At the same time he devoted himself to developing musical culture and education in his native Hungary. His late visionary works extended tonality and aphoristic phrasing beyond established conventions, anticipating the radical musical developments of Debussy and Schoenberg.