WILHEM LATCHOUMIA 27 And what about the spirituality of these pieces, some of which possess an almost religious profundity? Through its asceticism, Mompou’s music invites us into a kind of contemplation. Towards the end of his life, the composer went even further, in the exploration of the very notion of silence in his cycle Música callada, inspired by a canticle of Saint John of the Cross. This relationship to the sacred is also expressed through the presence of bells. Déodat de Séverac evokes those of the church of Llivia, which punctuate the mule drivers’ prayers in a piece often regarded as the spiritual apex of his work. It is also worth recalling that Federico Mompou grew up in the bell foundry founded by his grandfather, and was thus nurtured throughout his childhood by the resonances of vibrating metal; hence his remarkable ability to recreate them at the piano.
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