The Divine Quest in Music

An extended essay on the relationship between music and God. Contents: Introductory; In the beginning; As time went on; Saint Cecilia; Divinity of beauty; Contrast of Bach and Handel; Dedication of Haydn and the problem of Mozart; Miracle of Beethoven; Inspiration of Schubert; Was Berlioz an atheist?; God of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schumann; Liszt became an abbe'; Verdi's religion, Franck's Christianity, and the orthodoxy of Bruckner; Brahms and the end of a century; Two interludes - Negro spirituals and the lighter side of divinity; My contemporaries; Religion in the opera house; Conclusion.