Catholic art.

[Rev. Rye]

At the very least, the organs he wrote for were usually, if not always, built into churches. The harmonium had yet to be invented, and I don't think it would have done his works justice.






I do understand he was certainly open to new instruments (as his reaction to Frederick the Great's pianoforte just before composing "The Musical Offering" demonstrated), but in this case, it just feels like the piece is being sandbagged. And Bach certainly didn't have a lot of options with his organs, at any rate.

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Flannery O'Connor ! One great American writer. She wrote from a Catholic perspective but this is not immediately apparent when reading her works. She stated in a biography that without Jesus there in no salvation. Therefore her characters were all existential nightmares. Regardless of her agenda her two novels and works of short fiction are on my top ten list for best American fiction.

Yeah, it can be strange to contemplate her faith, especially given that the way she seems to treat her faith in her fiction, it almost seems like Cthulhu worship combined with Catholicism, the way the characters act.

Still may be the closest analog American literature has to Dostoevsky. Except maybe late Paddy Chayefsky, but that was mostly film.