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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.
Apr 16, 2024 · 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. Wolf studied at the Vienna Conservatory (1875–77) but had a moody and irascible temperament and was expelled from the ...
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Hugo Wolf. Composer. Hugo Wolf. 1860 - 1903. 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.
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Hugo Wolf was a late 19th century Austrian composer best known for his art songs. He was a highly creative person whose works, though influenced by Romantic music were unique and intense in their own right. He became especially well-known for his tremendous influence on the German lieder—lieder are art songs, a genre of composition in which ...
Sep 28, 2011 · Summary. By the time that the fiery, fifteen-year-old Wolf (1860–1903) from the town of Windischgraz in what was then Lower Styria (now Slovenjgradec in Slovenia) arrived in Vienna in 1875 to study at the Conservatory, the Lied had a rich history and an immense repertory, with more songs rolling off the presses each year.
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Hugo Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, 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 utterly unrelated in technique.
Hugo Wolf has a unique place in the history of 19 th -century song. Acutely aware of following in the wake of such songwriting giants as Schubert and Schumann and bowed down (for a while) by the weight of his own conflicted Wagner-worship, he found his way to a voice of his own.
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