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Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs
Author(s): Susan Youens (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: June 22, 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521027195
- ISBN-13: 9780521027199
Book Description
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, examining selected Mörike songs in detail to shed new light on the sophisticated interplay between poetry and music. Although Wolf is known as “the Poet’s Composer,” someone who revered poetry and served it faithfully in his music, Youens reveals how his Mörike songs were also influenced by his own life, psychology and experiences.
Editorial Reviews
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“This well-indexed volume…will appeal to students and scholars at the upper-division undergraduate level and above, performers, Wolf devotees, and song-literature lovers.” Choice
Book Description
A study of nineteenth-century composer Hugo Wolf and his settings of Eduard Mörike’s poems.
