Can you help me find a piece of classical music about a man meeting god?!


Question: All I know is this guy is taken up to heaven by an angel, there is a beautiful note, and then he asks to be taken away as it is too overwealming. I don't know the characters or the composer.


Answers: All I know is this guy is taken up to heaven by an angel, there is a beautiful note, and then he asks to be taken away as it is too overwealming. I don't know the characters or the composer.

Are you referring to the oratorio 'the Dream of Gerontius' by Sir Edward Elgar? In this a man dies and is met by his guardian angel following that death. He is shown devils and then lead before a vision of the Almighty. As Elgar was a Roman Catholic and was setting a poem by the Catholic Cardinal Newman, it ends with the man going to purgatory. I can't agree with the theology, but the music is wonderful. The work is one of my favourites.



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