Hugo Wolf
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) composed an amazing quantity of exceptional music during his short and turbulent life, including three famous songbooks and an opera. He died in an asylum in Vienna after succumbing to severe dementia caused by a syphilitic infection. Louise McClelland Urban is professor emerita of voice at the University of Maryland. She is recipient of the prestigious Hugo Wolf Medallion and a Creative and Performing Arts Award for Hugo Wolf Research. Her poetic prose translation of...See more
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) composed an amazing quantity of exceptional music during his short and turbulent life, including three famous songbooks and an opera. He died in an asylum in Vienna after succumbing to severe dementia caused by a syphilitic infection. Louise McClelland Urban is professor emerita of voice at the University of Maryland. She is recipient of the prestigious Hugo Wolf Medallion and a Creative and Performing Arts Award for Hugo Wolf Research. Her poetic prose translation of Wilhelm M�ller's twenty-four poems is featured in Schubert's Winterreise: A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, and Song , also published by the University of Wisconsin Press. See less
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