An interesting fact I have noticed is that some of my
favorite composers were priests, like Antonio Vivaldi, Tomas Victoria, and
Jacob Handl, often called Gallus. Is their spirituality reflected in their
music? Today I am listening to Pandora Radio, and since Light Bright is still
gone, I am listening to my Monteverdi station. When I looked Claudio Monteverdi
up on Wikipedia, it said he was married with children, but his wife died young,
and toward the end of his life he became a priest. (Know who else became a
priest toward the end? Liszt.) So the pattern seems to be holding up, except of
course for the Lutheran composers like Buxtehude and Bach. They never became
priests for some reason.
Famous Hat
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Liszt, really? I thought he was a ladies man and women swooned when he played the piano. Perhaps all that got old and towards the end of life he turned to the priesthood. Of course if he had dark chocolate, like Charlie, the bunny, then he would have been friskier
He was a ladies' man, that's what makes it so crazy.
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