Haydn, Joseph - Die Schöpfung - The Creation - Savall, Jordi

Haydn admitted that "while working on The Creation, he had felt an exceptional religious fervor." However, this work was also inspired by the spirituality of the Viennese Masonic lodges of his time: "it is above all the first secular oratorio in the sense that its message is addressed to all of humanity, just like The Magic Flute, in operatic terms and long before the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony."