church-liturgy

Updated: September 26, 2025

It becomes for the devout believer almost a kind of church-liturgy, a Mass by the Abbé Liszt. Rare qualities there undoubtedly are in the music: a reality of passion; a certain simplicity of plan; the sensuous beauty of melodic and harmonic touches.

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies