The Songs Of Hugo Wolf

Author : Eric Sams
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571280926

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The Songs of Hugo Wolf by Eric Sams Pdf

With a foreword by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, Eric Sams' study (Faber 1961, revised 1983) is a notable landmark in the establishment of Wolf as one of the supreme masters of German song. Comprehensively revised and enlarged in 1983, the main subject matter remains the 242 published songs that Wolf wrote for voice and piano, though the Ibsen songs for voice and orchestra are also discussed. English translations are provided and the backgrounds to the original poems by Morike, Eichendorff and Goethe, as well as the Italian and Spanish sources from which the songbooks were drawn, are fully explored. Each song is dated, its keys identified and vocal range determined. 'This is the most important book in the English language on the songs of Hugo Wolf since Ernest Newman proclaimed the composer's genius in 1907 . . . To the English-speaking student this work is a treasure to which he will find himself returning again and again: it is indispensable to those of us anxious to gain a deeper knowledge of Wolf.' Gerald Moore

Author : Richard Stokes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571360710

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The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf by Richard Stokes Pdf

The 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.

Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486285023

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Hugo Wolf by Ernest Newman Pdf

The 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.

Author : Susan Youens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691265018

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Hugo Wolf by Susan Youens Pdf

A groundbreaking look at one of the great song composers of the late Romantic period In the virtual cottage industry of works on fin de siècle Vienna, Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) has been somewhat neglected, perhaps because he was the master of a small genre—the late Romantic lied—and never truly made his mark in the larger forms that command greater public attention. But in the realm of song, he is among the greatest inheritors of Schubert and Schumann, one who was both a traditionalist and a modernist. When the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick disapprovingly dubbed Wolf “the Richard Wagner of the lied,” he was paying oblique homage to Wolf’s genius as a song composer in the most modern manner. In this book, Susan Youens examines five aspects of Wolf’s compositional art, each exemplifying a different synthesis of traditionalism and modernity and spanning his entire, tragically brief creative life, from his first efforts to his lapse into insanity in 1897. She discusses Wolf’s youthful imitations of Schumann, his genius for comic songs of a kind unlike any of his predecessors, his part in the ballad revival of the late nineteenth century, Wolf in relation to his contemporaries, and his pursuit of operatic fame. Youens looks as closely at the poetic texts as she does the music and includes numerous previously unpublished sketches and fragments, examples from songs now long out of print and difficult to obtain, and citations from Wolf’s vivid letters and other sources of the period.

Author : Hugo Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Songs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042482849

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Texts of the Solo Songs of Hugo Wolf by Hugo Wolf Pdf

Author : Susan Youens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139427951

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Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs by Susan Youens Pdf

Viennese 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.

Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042442082

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Hugo Wolf Songs by Mosco Carner Pdf

Author : Hugo Wolf
Publisher : Leyerle Publications
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015056170601

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Hugo Wolf's Complete Song Texts by Hugo Wolf Pdf

Author : Jack M. Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674436253

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Poem and Music in the German Lied from Gluck to Hugo Wolf by Jack M. Stein Pdf

Author : Hugo Wolf
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721812628

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Fifty Songs by Hugo Wolf by Hugo Wolf Pdf

From the introductory. "Mr. Ernest Newman's elaborate monograph on Hugo Wolf is divided into two parts, the first dealing with his life, and the second with his works. The former makes of necessity very painful reading. Hugo Wolf, who was the son of an unsuccessful Styrian leather-merchant, was denied the qualities which make either for success or content. His school life was unhappy, he was dismissed from the Vienna Conservatoire for insubordination, and his temperament rendered it absolutely impossible for him to make a livelihood by teaching, hack-work, or musical criticism.... Mr. Newman's elaborate analysis of the songs, operas, and other compositions of Hugo Wolf is based on an intimate acquaintance with the scores which is only possible in a thoroughly accomplished musician. "From his estimate of Wolf as the foremost song-writer of all time it is possible to dissent energetically; but there is no gainsaying the ability and enthusiasm with which he supports his claim. He is an uncompromising but a convinced partisan. -- The Spectator. "Mr. Newman is one of the most ardent of Wolf's admirers and his book is by far the most comprehensive biography of the man and study of his art that has appeared in English. It is also the ablest and best, although it must be recognized that Mr. Newman's position is to a considerable degree that of a special pleader." -- The N. Y. Times.

Author : Frank Walker
Publisher : London : Dent
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015010371535

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Hugo Wolf by Frank Walker Pdf

Author : Cecil James Sharp
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486231921

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One Hundred English Folksongs by Cecil James Sharp Pdf

Lyrics and piano music for traditional ballads and songs collected from singers throughout Britain are accompanied by notes on their probable origins, related versions, and historical allusions

Author : Hugo Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1052968706

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The Goethe songs of Hugo Wolf by Hugo Wolf Pdf

Author : Ian Bostridge,Richard Stokes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 1247 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571260911

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The Book of Lieder by Ian Bostridge,Richard Stokes Pdf

This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the composer's development. Richard Stokes, whose work in this field is already widely acclaimed, provides illuminating short essays on each of the fifty composers' approach to Lieder composition, as well as well as notes on all the poets who inspired the songs.The volume is notable for the accuracy and elegance of its translations, and for its fidelity to the German verse: every care has been taken to print the words of the sung text, while adhering to the versification and punctuation of the original poem.Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Goethe, Heine and Schiller are among the highlights of a book which illuminates one of the great musical traditions and will be an indispensable handbook for every music lover.

Author : Deborah Jane Stein
Publisher : University of Rochester Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : 0835719952

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Hugo Wolf's Lieder and Extensions of Tonality by Deborah Jane Stein Pdf

Study of the harmonic language of the late 19c based on songs by Hugo Wolf.