Thursday, March 13, 2025

March 13 - Hugo Wolf (The Musical Birthday Series, 7th Annual Cycle)

Previous postings on Hugo Wolf may be found here: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, Sammy Kaye (2023), and Hugo Wolf (2024)

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

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's Two, Two, Two Arts in One


A song by Hugo Wolf is the quintessence

Of matching notes to words to find the essence

Of what the poet meant when they were writing;

In it we hear the different arts uniting, –

A mini-Wagner drama found within its

Modest span of fraught cerebral minutes.

 

 

 

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