Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian inheritance /
In spite of growing interest in the songs of Hugo Wolf, there is still a lack of serious critical discussion of the nature of his achievements, in particular his relationship to Richard Wagner. Wolf has been regarded as a composer who followed the style and aesthetics of Wagnerian music drama withou...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 'Music of the future'?: The nature of the Wagnerian inheritance
- 'Wagner of the Lied'?: Wolf as critic of Wagner and Wagnerism
- Small things can also enchant us: Wolf's challenge to nineteenthcentury views of song
- 'Poetry the man, music the woman'? Wolf's reworking in his Morike songs of Wagner's aesthetics of words and music
- The integrity of musical language: questions of form and meaning in Wolf's Goethe songs
- The Wolfian perspective: comparisons with the songs of Strauss and Mahler.
