HUGO WOLF
HUGO WOLF. By: Madison Miller. Full name was Hugo Philipp Jakob Wolf. Wolf was born March 13, 1860 in Windischgraz, Austria (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia). Died February 22, 1903 in Vienna and was buried along with other composers.
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HUGO WOLF By: Madison Miller
Full name was Hugo Philipp Jakob Wolf. • Wolf was born March 13, 1860 in Windischgraz, Austria (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia). • Died February 22, 1903 in Vienna and was buried along with other composers.
Wolf was a child prodigy, he was taught piano and violin by his father starting at age 4. • Studied at The Vienna Conservatory, but he was expelled because he was very moody and had a temper. • Wolf’s dad died in 1887 and he stopped composing for the rest of the year.
Vally Franck was Wolf’s first love and their relationship lasted 3 years. • Wolf also fell in love with his friends wife, they had an affair, but she killed herself because of her unfaithfulness to her husband. • Wolf was never married and had no children.
MUSIC • Wolf wrote hundreds of lieder, 3 operas, incidental music, choral music, rarely heard orchestral , chamber and piano music. • He was best known for his lieder. • Modeled his lieder after Franz Schubert and Robert Schmann • Started writing songs based on poems (by Ibesen, Nikolaus Lenau, J.W. von Goethe and many others) in 1883
Influences • Richard Wagner influenced Wolf and was his idol. • Johannes Brahms encouraged Wolf and urged him to broaden his music focus and career. • Wagner’s death was a tragic event in Wolf’s life.
Operas • Wolf made his first opera, Corregidor in 1895 ( it was a story by Pedro Antonio de Alacon) • First opera was a failure , it was produced in Mannheim in 1896 and the revised version was produced in Strasbourg in 1896. • 2nd opera, Manual Veneyas, also after Alacon, remained unfinished.
Syphilis • Wolf was diagnosed with Syphilis, at age 18, that was to cripple and kill him • In the repeated relapse of this disease he would enter deep depressions and couldn’t compose. • Died oh Syphilis shortly before turning 43.
Verborgenheit • One of his most popular pieces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYMmQlhQt4
Last Years • Was put in a mental home in 1897, was temporarily discharged in 1898. • Soon afterward he unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide. • In October 1898 he requested to be placed in an asylum in Vienna.
Sources • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/646494/Hugo-Wolf • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYMmQlhQt4
