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Hugo Wolf: Letters to Melanie Köchert
by Hugo Wolf (Contributor: Franz Grasberger) (Contributor: Louise McClelland Urban)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press (2003-12-15)
ISBN: 0299194442
EAN: 9780299194444
Dewy Decimal #: 782.42168092
Paperback: 333 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: C008YYW
Condition: Used: Acceptable
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Product Description
This volume tells of a relationship between Hugo Wolf, one of the greatest masters of the German art song, and Melanie Kochert, the wife of a prominent Viennese jeweller with whom Wolf shared a lifelong emotional, spiritual, and artistic bond. Wolf's letters to Kochert reveal Wolf at his most optimistic, celebrating his concert successes. They follow Wolf through times of overwhelming despair, when his musical failures left him profoundly alienated, overcome, as he revealed to Kochert, "by a feeling of unspeakable emptiness and desolation". And they follow Wolf as he struggled to compose the 250 art songs that are his creative legacy as he descended almost simultaneously into madness.
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