March 13 - Hugo Wolf (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous postings on Hugo Wolf may be found here: 2019, 2020, and 2021

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Hugo Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was one of the greatest composers of German art song.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür! 

Hugo Wolf, in songs, intended

To take a poem, already splendid,

And set it so the whole transcended

Routine things that middling men did.

And listeners, when the song had ended,

Felt that they had comprehended

Something mystic which ascended

To the realms that mystic Zen did.

 

 

 

 

 

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