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Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) [1] was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique.
Hugo Wolf (born March 13, 1860, Windischgraz, Austria [now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia]—died Feb. 22, 1903, Vienna) was a composer who brought the 19th-century German lied, or art song, to its highest point of development.
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A song of great longing, "Im Frühling" (In Spring) is yet another of the perceptive combinings of poetic expression and superb music that marked Hugo Wolf's best work.
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Biography. Hugo Wolf elevated the song to an artform of unprecedented psychological power and dramatic scope. His songbooks became narratives, complete with characters, plot, counterplots, gesture and colour. He struggled, and ultimately failed, to master the large-scale forms of symphony and opera. But the epic qualities he sought in those ...
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120 years ago, on 22 February 1903, Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) died in an insane asylum after trying to drown himself in October 1898. He had last appeared in concert on February 1897, but the impending paralysis of tertiary syphilis was accompanied by outbursts of violent temper and restlessness.
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Jul 4, 2017 · Hugo Wolf - Elfenlied (Sheet music and lyrics) Dottore '. 3.58K subscribers. 568. 40K views 7 years ago. Elfenlied (German "fairy song") is the conventional title of a 1780 poem by Goethe, and...
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