#franz-faust

[xaliboo]

franz von stuck - lucifer, 1890

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Goethe’s Faust by Franz Stassen (1924)

[amicus-noctis]

“My dear, A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Painting: "Woman walking on a forest trail" by Vasily Polenov

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Franz Stassen - ‘Witches’ Festival’, from “Faust” by Goethe, Mainz, Stassen Verlag, 1984.

[compassmili]

The matchings :] Kromlin and Faucille...

[midnightostara]

Last Saturday,

I had the most incredible honor & experience of watching Heilung.

This was my first ritual to attend.

The ritual was spectacular and amazing.

But I’m sadden that I won’t be attending more rituals when there here in the US because this is their last time touring the US.

Though I’m sad that there won’t be anymore rituals in the US but I can entirely say that this was an honor of seeing them live.

[yorgunherakles]

bu sessiz akşamlar, bu değişime kapalı, sürprizsiz, umutsuz, donuk hayat. gülümsüyorlar, konuşuyorlar bizimle fakat hiçbir şey anlamıyoruz. çöl burada başlıyor işte. sosyal çöl, kültürel çöl.

elisabeth roudinesco - kendi çağından bizim çağımıza freud

[milojakue]

i saw your light i saw your bones i don’t need that, no

[antoncrane]

Being an utterly normal person and cracking open my books on necromancy, so come October I can start bothering people by making comparisons between real world and Nevarran practices.

[icedmilkwater]

NEET FAUST NEET FAUST NEET FAUST NEET FAUST NEET FAUST NEET FAUST

EVERYONE HIT REBLOG

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Legendary composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) plays his second concert in Kiev in 1847, at what will become the tail end of his famous decade-long European concert tour. It is estimated that Liszt played well over 1,000 concerts in the decade between 1838 and 1848... So what made this particular concert notable? Sitting in the audience on that fateful evening was a twenty-eight-year-old fabulously wealthy Ukrainian princess named Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein. Princess Carolyne was married to (but separated from) Prince Nicholas von Sayn-Wittgenstein, a landowner holding vast estates in Central Ukraine with more than 30,000 serfs at his beck and call. She had actually travelled to Kiev for business, and she only attended Liszt's concert on a whim after hearing about the success of his first concert in the city -- but that chance decision would change both of their lives (and the course of musical history) forever. Princess Carolyne was deeply struck by the flashy figure that she saw before her on the concert stage, and acting on impulse, she made a fateful gamble: Hoping to attract Liszt's attention, she left him an exceedingly large "anonymous" (but easily traceable) monetary gift at the theater. Like a moth to a flame, the curious Liszt quickly identified her and then came calling to thank her for her generosity -- and within a matter of weeks, he was making plans to abandon his touring life and take up with a (technically-still-married) princess... PICTURED: A c. 1890s cabinet photo of the famous portrait showing the dashing young Liszt c. 1837 (shortly before he embarked on his grand concert tour), as painted by noted Dutch-French Romantic artist Ary Scheffer (1795 - 1858). This particular cabinet photo is one of many that was handed out to visitors over the years by Pauline Apel, who served as Liszt's housekeeper for thirty years at his residence in Weimar. When it was turned into a museum the year after his death, Apel stayed on and served as the official tourist guide until her own death, forty years later, in 1926.

[europaaesthetic]

Musik #2

Eine Faust Symphonie, Franz Liszt

[chicagomusicguide]

Peering Into The Magical World Of Heilung [INTERVIEW]

[franzliszt-official]

Good afternoon/evening Mr Liszt :) I was listening to Symphonie fantastique and I was wondering if Totentanz was inspired by it?

Good morning my dear pupil.

I suppose listening to the Songe d'une nuit de sabbat sparked this doubt. Although our very strong friendship certainly has had some effect on the both of us - "Hamlet" he used to call me, Hector a fervent atheist with the strongest mystical experiences I have ever encountered - I'd suppose the clearest bond between our musical choices would be his idea to include the Hungarian march in La damnation de Faust, with all that the Ràkòczi March meant for me and all Hungarians abroad.

In the Symphonie Fantastique he included the gregorian canon for the Dies irae, which outdates us all by many centuries and has always been a stable for all students of music. Such a coincidence is incidental. The Dies irae has been the basis for my "Dance of the Dead", Totentanz, as a self-explaining motive, and for some other compositions of mine such as one of the Mephisto-Walzer. The Totentanz, though its name nevertheless would suggest the such, has not been inspired by a chorea macabæorum, but by the medieval fresco called Triumph of Death located in the Monumental Cemetery in the Square of Miracles in Pisa. Its subject is the topos of three bodies found in the woods, that of a peasant, of a noble and a clergyman, all equal in death, and the struggle between forces of Good and Evil to capture the souls of the dead and condemn them either to Eternal Death or to be saved.

I enclose pictorial representation and video re-enactment from 17:50 onward

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Franz Stassen. From “Faust. A Tragedy” by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1924.

[compassmili]

OH, YOUR HEART, AORTIC WORK OF HEART

MY LOVE, MY KNIFE, TO CARVE IT OUT YOUR LIFE