Hugo Wolf
Author: Ernest Newman
Publisher: London : Methuen
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13:
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Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs
Author: Susan Youens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-06-22
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1139427954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViennese composer Hugo Wolf produced one of the most important song collections of the nineteenth century when he set to music fifty-three poems by the great German poet Eduard Mörike. Susan Youens reappraises this singular collaboration to shed new light on the sophisticated interplay between poetry and music in the songs. Wolf is customarily described as 'the Poet's Composer', someone who revered poetry and served it faithfully in his music. Yet, as Youens reveals, this cliché overlooks the rich terrain in which his songs are often at cross purposes with his chosen poetry. Although Wolf did much to draw the world's attention to the neglected Swabian poet, his musical interpretation of the poetry was also influenced by his own life, psychology and experiences. This book examines selected Mörike songs in detail, demonstrating that the poems and music each have their own distinctive stories which at times intersect but also diverge.
Letters to Melanie Köchert
Author: Hugo Wolf
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780299194444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a love story. It tells of an extraordinary epistolary relationship between Hugo Wolf, one of the greatest masters of the German art song, whose dedication to the poetic spirit of his music was equaled only by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, and Melanie Köchert, the wife of a prominent Viennese jeweler with whom Wolf shared a lifelong emotional, spiritual, and artistic bond. Wolf's letters to Köchert--he wrote 245 between 1887 and 1899--were composed during a period of almost unprecedented cultural upheaval in Europe, in the shadow of Vienna during the era of Freud, Mahler, and Klimt. They reveal Wolf at his most optimistic, celebrating his concert successes and the solitude he believed was so precious to his ability to compose. They follow Wolf through times of overwhelming despair, when his musical failures left him profoundly alienated, overcome, as he revealed to Köchert, "by a feeling of unspeakable emptiness and desolation." And they follow Wolf as he struggled to compose the 250 astounding art songs that are his creative legacy, and his almost simultaneous descent into madness. Hugo Wolf: Letters to Melanie Köchert, sensitively translated by Wolf scholar and interpreter Louise McClelland Urban, is a literary and musical even of the highest order
The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf
Author: Richard Stokes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2021-10-08
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 0571360718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf gathers together for the first time every poem Wolf set to music. Alongside the original German texts are translations by leading Lieder expert Richard Stokes, who also provides illuminating commentary. The 36 poets set by Wolf are each given their own chapter: a brief essay on the poet is followed by a note on Wolf's connection with the writer, extracts from letters that throw light on the Songs and convey his mood at the time of composition, and the texts and translations. Short biographies of all Wolf's correspondents flesh out the extraordinary life of this genius. This will be an indispensable volume for all lovers of Lieder.
Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance
Author: Amanda Glauert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780521028080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn spite of growing interest in the songs of Hugo Wolf, there is still a lack of serious critical discussion of the nature of his achievements. This book offers an in-depth study of his music, including detailed analyses of selected songs. Perspectives from musical analysis and history are brought together to show how this composer and late-nineteenth-century song have a far more significant role in helping us to understand Wagner's musical and aesthetic influence than has yet been realized.
Poem and Music in the German Lied from Gluck to Hugo Wolf
Author: Jack M. Stein
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780674436251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHugo Wolf's Lieder and Extensions of Tonality
Author: Deborah Jane Stein
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780835719957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of the harmonic language of the late 19c based on songs by Hugo Wolf.
Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists
Author: Julien Bogousslavsky
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 3805593309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third part of Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists presents painters, musicians, and writers who had to fight against an acute or chronic neurological disease. Sometimes this fight was without success (e.g. Shostakovich, Schumann, Wolf, Pascal), but often a dynamic and paradoxical creativity of the clinical disorder was integrated into their artistic production (e.g. Klee, Ramuz). Occasionally, some even wrote the first report of a medical condition they observed in themselves, like Stendhal who made a detailed report of aphasic transient ischemic attacks before dying of stroke shortly thereafter. In rarer instances, a neurological disease was inaccurately attributed to an artist in order to explain certain features of his work (de Chirico, Schiele). Some chapters in this publication focus on neurological conditions reported in artistic work, including descriptions by Shakespeare and Dumas. Bringing new light to both artists and neurological conditions, this book serves as a valuable and entertaining read for neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and anybody interested in arts, literature and music.
Hugo Wolf
Author: Ernest Newman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-10
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0486285022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tragic story of an erratic genius's life and a survey of some of his works, including his art songs and operas. "Very interesting and very stimulating." — The New York Times.
Bear and Wolf
Author: Daniel Salmieri
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-05-25
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 1592703399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Capitol Choices Book of 2019A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of 2018Winter 2017 – 2018 Kids Indie Next Pick!A Fatherly Best Children's Book of 2018Selected for exhibition in the 2018 Society of Illustrators Original Art show "Just found the book we'll gift to every child we know!"—PBS "Stunning, serene and philosophical"—Maria Russo, The New York Times "Hushed and lovely, this is a picture book to calm and inspire."—Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal Bear and Wolf become unlikely companions one winter's evening when they discover each other out walking in the falling snow; they are young and curious, slipping easily into friendship as they amble along together, seeing new details in the snowy forest. Together they spy an owl overhead, look deep into the frozen face of the lake, and contemplate the fish sleeping below the surface. Then it's time to say goodbye: for Bear to go home and hibernate with the family and for Wolf to run with the pack. Daniel Salmieri's debut as author/illustrator is a beautifully rendered story of friendship and the subtle rhythm of life when we are open to the world and to each other.
