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Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 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.
Though he had several bursts of extraordinary productivity, particularly in 1888 and 1889, depression frequently interrupted his creative periods, and his last composition was written in 1898, before he died of syphilis.
Biography
Early life (1860 – 1887)
Wolf was born in Windischgraz (now Slovenj Gradec), part of a German-speaking enclave within Slovenia, to a Slovene mother (Katherina Orehovnik) and a Germanic father (Philipp Wolf). His family was originally named 'Vouks', but they changed the surname to the German form 'Wolf'. Hugo Wolf is regarded as an Austrian composer since he rejected his provincial or peasant origins and 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. More on [ Hugo Wolf ]
@tristan2512 Many thanks. Beautiful voices and singers but not the french style. Could you imagine Schubert or Hugo Wolf sung in french?
mystic_cat (mystic_cat) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:37:03 -0000
@tristan2512 Many thanks. Beautiful voices and singers but not the french style. Could you imagine Schubert or Hugo Wolf sung in french?
@Greenfaery hooray! :) our address is Hugo-Wolf-Gasse 1 / 9. :)
amyhoy (Amy Hoy) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:23:54 -0000
@Greenfaery hooray! :) our address is Hugo-Wolf-Gasse 1 / 9. :)
Schubert / String Quartet, D 887 / Hugo Wolf Quartet / VMS 208
wfmtmusic (98.7WFMT Music) Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:06:31 -0000
Schubert / String Quartet, D 887 / Hugo Wolf Quartet / VMS 208
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Wolf, Hugo (1860 - 1903), Austria - Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
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