Research Catalog

Title

Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian inheritance / Amanda Glauert.

Author

Glauert, Amanda.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description

vii, 161 pages : music; 26 cm

Summary

• In spite of growing interest in the songs of Hugo Wolf, there is still a lack of serious critical discussion of the nature of his achievements, in particular his relationship to Richard Wagner. Wolf has been regarded as a composer who followed the style and aesthetics of Wagnerian music drama without question, while writing in a genre often seen as less challenging than the symphony or opera.
• This book re-examines the evidence concerning Wolf's responses to Wagner and Wagnerism, and suggests ways in which he voiced his criticism through song and through his one completed opera, Der Corregidor. This opens up new insights into the kind of impact Wagner had on those following in his wake, and into the complexity and subtlety of the late nineteenth-century Lied.
• From this perspective, Wolf emerges as a persuasive and articulate figure, of wider musical and artistic significance than has yet been recognised.

Subjects

• Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903 > Criticism and interpretation
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Influence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159) and index.

Contents

1. 'Music of the future'? The nature of the Wagnerian inheritance -- 2. 'Wagner of the Lied'? Wolf as critic of Wagner and Wagnerism -- 3. Small things can also enchant us - Wolf's challenge to nineteenth-century views of song -- 4. 'Poetry the man, music the woman'? Wolf's reworking in his Morike songs of Wagner's aesthetics of words and music -- 5. The integrity of musical language - questions of form and meaning in Wolf's Goethe songs -- 6. The Wolfian perspective - comparisons with the songs of Strauss and Mahler.

ISBN

0521496373 (hb)

LCCN

98021453

OCLC

• 504270231
• ocn504270231

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries