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HUGO WOLF

13th March 1860 --- 22nd February 1903

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), was born as a son of a leather trader who had a very musical mind in the city of Windischgrär
which is Yugoslavia today.  He was supposed to learn a practical profession,  but early in his youth he was very fond of
Wagner which turned him to the music path.  At 15 he attended the Vienna Conservatory,  but he was not  able to bear
a scholar's life for longer than two years.

He disgusted academic and systematic working too much,  being a man of hot temper.  He made his living as a dancing
musician,  for some time he  was a musical  conductor,  mainly however,  he made his  living by writing  musical critics.
His critics were fanatically  anti-Brahms and pro-Wagner,  being at the same  time poisonous as well as ironic.  He led a
poor life until, at last, his first cycle the 53 Mörike-songs,  erupted in a volcanous-like creation process in 1888  aroused
sponsors, mainly in south-west Germany.

During the following years he wrote his next master-pieces always in cycles and nearly always within weeks or at most
months,  followed by agonizing fruitless periods,  often accompanied by depressions,  51 songs on verses of Eichendorff
51 songs on verses of Goethe,  46 songs based on the "Italian Song Book"  by Paul Heyse,  two volumes of  the "Spanish
Songbook spiritual and secular and finally the fully ripened three Michelangelo-Songs. In between choral works such as
"Elfenlied"  (The Elf Song) and "Der Feuerreiter"  (The Fire Rider), all based on songs and the only two orchestral pieces
"Penthesilea" and this completely non-wagnerian lightful "Italian Serenade" which was originally was planned for string
quartet. Slowly but continually Hugo Wolf's fame grew.

Detlev von Liliencron  greeted him with an enthusiastic hymn.  A progressive paralysis,  the result of a luetitious illness
set an early end to his life. He had to be delivered into a Vienna asylum.

There he dozed for nearly six years until death redeemed him.

Source: KNAURS WELTGESCHICHTE DER MUSIK, Droemer Knaur, 1968

I like to sincerely thank Roland R. Noetzelmann for translating the above and donating it to my site.

Last Updated on 2018
By Steven Ritchie

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(1596)"Verschwiegene Liebe". Sequenced by Chiaki Ikenoue

(1597)"Ich hab' in Penna einen Liebsten wohnen". Sequenced by Chiaki Ikenoue

Thanks to Ramon Pajares Box for the music below. Email (rpajares@ince.mec.es)

(785)"Italian Serenade (1892) for small orchestra". Sequenced by Ramon Pajares Box

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