If one were to characterize the third volume of the Annes de Pelerinage in two words, they would be “religion” and “depression.” And while much can be said about the first, one can mostly speculate about the latter. The premature deaths of his son Daniel and daughter Blandine may well have caused his despair; so could the thwarted marriage with Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein in Rome on top of his inability to realize his artistic ambitions concerning the “Music of the Future” in the small-minded Weimar during the 1850s. Fact is that on his fifty-first birthday, Liszt was entering the blackest and most troubled phase of his life. The result is this terrific work.
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