Hugo Wolf And His Morike Songs

Author : Susan Youens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139427954
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs written by Susan Youens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ernest Newman
Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hugo Wolf written by Ernest Newman and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1907 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Sams
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280927
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songs of Hugo Wolf written by Eric Sams and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0571360718
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf written by Richard Stokes and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hugo Wolf
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048624380X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The complete Mörike songs written by Hugo Wolf and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrian composer's splendid settings of 53 poems by German poet Eduard Mörike. Includes Der Tambour, Verborgenheit, Elfenlied, 50 more. New literal prose translations of the lyrics provided, with lists of song titles and openings, and glossary of German musical terms. Sturdily bound, clearly reproduced collection of some of the finest lieder ever composed.

Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hugo Wolf Songs written by Mosco Carner and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Youens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691265011
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hugo Wolf written by Susan Youens and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299194444
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to Melanie Köchert written by Hugo Wolf and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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

Author : Eduard Morike
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 071454762X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart's Journey to Prague written by Eduard Morike and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a journey to Prague with his wife for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the grounds of a stately home. But when the resident family finds out who they are dealing with, they are delighted to be in the presence of the celebrated composer and invite him to their daughter's wedding. This vivid and imaginative depiction captures both the humorous and the more pensive side of the genius composer.

Author : Susan Youens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521823749
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heinrich Heine and the Lied written by Susan Youens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study into the poet Heinrich Heine's impact on nineteenth-century song.