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    Hugo Wolf was born in Windischgrätz in the Duchy of Styria (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia), then a part of the Austrian Empire. Herbert von Karajan was related to him on his maternal side.

  2. Apr 16, 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: Apr 16, 2024 • Article History. Hugo Wolf. In full: Hugo Philipp Jakob Wolf. Born: March 13, 1860, Windischgraz, Austria [now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia] Died: Feb. 22, 1903, Vienna (aged 42) Notable Works: “Spanisches Liederbuch”

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  4. Childhood & Early Life. Hugo Wolf was born on 13 March 1860 in Windischgrätz (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia), then a part of the Austrian Empire. His father was a leather dealer. He was musically inclined from childhood, and started learning piano and violin from his father at the age of four.

  5. Hugo Wolf was born on 13 March 1860 in Windischgrätz/Styria (today: Slovenj Gradec/Slovenia) into a middle-class and (initially) quite wealthy family. He was the second son of master leather worker Philipp Wolf (1828-1887) and his wife Katharina (1824-1903), who had a total of eight children: five girls, two of whom died in infancy, and three ...

  6. 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.

  7. Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) was born in Slovenj Gradec. With his prolific and prodigious output of late-romantic lieder, Wolf continued the legacies of Schubert and Schumann and emerged as one of Vienna’s internationally most prominent composers and an idiosyncratic fin-de-siècle figure.

  8. Hugo Wolf was born in Windischgrätz (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia), then a part of the Austrian Empire. He spent most of his life in Vienna , becoming a representative of "New German" trend in Lieder , a trend which followed from the expressive, chromatic , and dramatic musical innovations of Richard Wagner .

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