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Hugo Wolf (born Windischgraz (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia) 13 March, 1860; died Vienna, 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin. He is famous for his Lieder (German art songs). He found new ways of expressing poetry in music. He used the song forms that had been made by Schubert and Schumann, but his harmonies bring something very new and personal to German song.
Find Hugo Wolf composition information on AllMusic. Wolf (1869-1903) was one of the most important Austrian composers of lieder (German-language art songs) of the late 19th century.
Hugo Wolf Vereine were founded everywhere; and today we have publications, collections of letters, souvenirs, and biographies in abundance. It is a case of who can cry loudest that he always understood the genius of the unhappy artist and work himself into the greatest fury against his traducers.
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While composers like Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler brought increasing intensity to Lieder by using more dissonant, complicated harmonies than earlier composers. One result of their experimentation.
Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated e.
Hugo Wolf, a native of Windischgraz (now Slovenjgradec, Slovenia), in the Austro-Hungarian province of Styria, was born on March 13, 1860 and died on February 22, 1903, three weeks before his 43rd birthday -- like Schubert, German music's first great lieder composer, of tertiary syphilis.Like Schumann, the other great lieder composer (also syphilitic), Wolf died in an insane asylum after.
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf was born on 13 March 1860, the fourth of six surviving children, in Windischgraz, Styria, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was taught the piano and violin by his father at an early age and continued to study piano at the local primary school.
The Open Directory Lieder Page - another list of Lieder related links. The Analysis of Song - summary notes of a seminar, which focused on the analysis of song, with particular emphasis on the relationship between narrative strategies employed in both text and music; by Lawrence Zbikowski.
In The Dark Shadow: Enharmonic Equivalence as Subtext in Two Wolf Lieder Robert T. Kelley October 2003 Abstract Chromatic chord usage in many of Hugo Wolf’s songs often results in progressions that require enharmonic reinterpretation of certain notes in order to return to the original key. In two songs.
Hugo Wolf was another nineteenth-century composer who specialized in lieder. He wrote hundreds of lieder and composed other works, including two operas. His style is linked to the Second Viennese School of Arnold Schoenberg, Alan Berg, and Anton Webern. Wolf’s lieder continually have grand moments of expressiveness. His lieder and.
The musicologist Susan Youens is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on German song, and the music of Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf. She is one of very few people in the United States who have won four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as fellowships from the National Humanities Center.
Graham Johnson takes time off from Schumann and French song to give us this glowing disc of all of Hugo Wolf Goethe settings suitable for female voice, some of which have rarely been recorded. The remarkable soprano Geraldine McGreevy sings them for us in her first solo CD (she has taken part in some of the Schumann recordings with Graham).
