Tag Archives: Hugo Wolf

Like Nordraak and Lekeu, Hans Rott is among the most painful “could-have-been” situations in the music from the nineteen hundred years. Highly talented — Bruckner acquired great expectations about him — his symphony, both in thematic articles and compositional methods, anticipates Mahler, whose First Symphony it predated by eight years. …

Hugo Wolf, a local of Windischgraz (now Slovenjgradec, Slovenia), in the Austro-Hungarian province of Styria, was created on March 13, 1860 and died on Feb 22, 1903, three weeks before his 43rd birthday — like Schubert, German music’s first great lieder composer, of tertiary syphilis. Like Schumann, the various other …