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[Eric Sams, Gabriel Meyer] ✓ The Songs of Hugo Wolf ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Songs of Hugo Wolf Comprehensively revised and enlarged in 1983, the main subject matter remains the 242 published songs that Wolf wrote for voice and piano, though the Ibsen songs for voice and orchestra are also discussed. 'This is the most important book in the English language on the songs of Hugo Wolf since Ernest Newman proclaimed the composer's genius in 1907 To the English-speaking student this work is a treasure to which he will find himself returning again and again: it is indispensable to those of us an
| Title | : | The Songs of Hugo Wolf |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253207908 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 401 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-21 |
| Language | : | English |
He wrote several books, and specialized in the relationship between music and language, particularly the text settings of the Romantic song composers. . He studied modern languages at Cambridge and then joined the Civil Service. Eric Sams (1926-2004) was exceptional both as a musicologist, specialising in German
The Bible R. Platt This is the Bible for lovers and scholars of the music of perhaps the greatest of all German song composers—and certainly the one who aimed the highest. Sams's knowledge is molecular-level, but he writes with unfailing elegance. Invaluable.. "Five Stars" according to Ashzab. Invaluable. The last word on this composer and his songs.
He studied modern languages at Cambridge and then joined the Civil Service. He wrote several books, and specialized in the relationship between music and language, particularly the text settings of the Romantic song composers. His fascination with lieder was first inspired by hearing recordings of Hugo Wolf songs in the collection of one of his schoolmasters. About the Author Eric Sams (1926-2004) was exceptional both as a musicologist, specialising in German lieder, and as a Shakespeare scholar. He had an exceptional gift for quoting at length the texts of almost of any verse, including the complete works of Shakespeare. He became a highly respected music critic, with a witty and allusive style, reviewing regularly for, among others, the Times Literary Supplement.
Comprehensively revised and enlarged in 1983, the main subject matter remains the 242 published songs that Wolf wrote for voice and piano, though the Ibsen songs for voice and orchestra are also discussed. 'This is the most important book in the English language on the songs of Hugo Wolf since Ernest Newman proclaimed the composer's genius in 1907 To the English-speaking student this work is a treasure to which he will find himself returning again and again: it is indispensable to those of us anxious to gain a deeper knowledge of Wolf.' Gerald Moore. English translations are provided and the backgrounds to the original poems by Morike, Eichendorff and Goethe, as well as the Italian and Spanish sources from which the songbooks were drawn, are fully explored. With a foreword by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, Eric Sams' study (Faber 1961, revised 1983) is a notable landmark in the establishment of Wolf as one of the supreme masters of German song. Each song is dated, its keys identified and vocal range determined
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