Hugo Wolf and His Mörike Songs

ISBN-13: 9780521651592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 216 str.

Susan Youens

Opis

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 Morike. Susan Youens reappraises this singular collaboration, examining selected Morike 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 Morike songs were also influenced by his own life, psychology and experiences.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. 'Göttlicher Mörike!': an introduction to Eduard Mörike and Hugo Wolf; 2. Peregrina revisited: songs of love and madness; 3. Agnes's songs: the fictional misfortunes and musical fortunes of a nineteenth-century madwoman; 4. Sung desire: from Biedermeier Erotica to fin-de-siècle lied; 5. Doubters and believers: case-studies in the geistliche Lieder; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.