Hugo Wolf

His untimely death at the age of thirtyseven, a short life—like those of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Hugo Wolf—has robbed the world of one of its noblest singers, one of those few men of modern times who found expression in the language of musical song, a lyricist of power and worth.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

While iterations of the seminal Wolf Society recordings are now available only secondhand, EMI the custodian of those recordings did at least recently issue an eight-CD set titled "Hugo Wolf: The Anniversary Edition," featuring such venerable interpreters as Schwarzkopf and the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, as well as artists of more recent vintage like the mezzo-soprano Anne Sophie von Ottter and the tenor Ian Bostridge.

A Lifetime Dedicated to Dear Lieder David Mermelstein 2010

But before this year ends, it's worth noting that 2010 also marks the 150th birthday of a much less famous figure, and one who could actually benefit from such feting: Hugo Wolf, born in 1860 into what was then the Austrian Empire.

A Lifetime Dedicated to Dear Lieder David Mermelstein 2010

As he rehearsed pieces by Carl Loewe and Hugo Wolf, a German diction coach reminded him to hit his H's.

The Met Grooms a Young Star 2009

So - well, if you sing Schubert's songs, for example, there are so many also positive songs or, Hugo Wolf, for example ...

Thomas Quasthoff: A Mighty 'Voice' Soars 2008

After intermission there was a set of striking, intense songs by Hugo Wolf, the troubled Austrian composer who went insane very early, followed by a Spanish set with selections by Granados and Turina.

DesignerBlog Will 2007

After intermission there was a set of striking, intense songs by Hugo Wolf, the troubled Austrian composer who went insane very early, followed by a Spanish set with selections by Granados and Turina.

Archive 2007-04-01 Will 2007

In the same book Alvarez also described the sterile and cold world of suicidal depression; like Hugo Wolf he drew the contrast between the normal and the depressed worlds, portraying an abyss that cannot be spanned:

Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993

In striking contrast to the melancholic states are the manic ones, in which, wrote Hugo Wolf, the “blood becomes changed into streams of fire.”

Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993

Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, who died from tertiary syphilis but whose volatility and extremes in mood predated the symptoms of his paresis, focused on the painful contrast between the subjective experience of an arid, sterile reality and a sense of the external world as an unobtainable, visible, but not for him habitable place of light, warmth, and creation:

Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993