Letters to Melanie Kochert
- 作者: Wolf, Hugo,
- 其他作者: Grasberger, Franz.
- 出版: New York :Toronto :New York : Schirmer Books ;Collier Macmillan Canada ;Maxwell Macmillan International c1991.
- 稽核項: xxxviii, 293 p., [16] p. of plates :ill., ports. ;25 cm.
- 標題: Composers , Wolf, Hugo, , Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903 Correspondence. , Correspondence. , Composers Austria -- Correspondence. , Kochert, Melanie.
- ISBN: 0028730216 , 9780028730219
- 附註: Translation of: Briefe an Melanie Kochert. Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and indexes.
- 系統號: 005101525
- 資料類型: 圖書
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This book tells the extraordinary epistolary relationship between Hugo Wolf, one of the greatest masters of the German art song, whose dedication to the poetic spirit of his music was equaled only by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, and Melanie Köchert, the wife of a prominent Viennese jeweler with whom Wolf shared a lifelong emotional, spiritual, and artistic bond. Wolf's letters to Köchert--he wrote 245 between 1887 and 1899--were composed during a period of almost unprecedented cultural upheaval in Europe, in the shadow of Vienna during the era of Freud, Mahler, and Klimt. They reveal Wolf at his most optimistic, celebrating his concert successes and the solitude he believed was so precious to his ability to compose. They follow Wolf through times of overwhelming despair, when his musical failures left him profoundly alienated, overcome, as he revealed to Köchert, "by a feeling of unspeakable emptiness and desolation." And they follow Wolf as he struggled to compose the 250 astounding art songs that are his creative legacy, and his almost simultaneous descent into madness.
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