120 years ago, on 22 February 1903, Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) died in an insane asylum after trying to drown himself in October 1898. He had last appeared in concert on February 1897, but the impending paralysis of tertiary syphilis was

The Austrian composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) was a superb song composer, bringing the late Romantic lied into the modern age and, with it, imbuing the lied with a new conciseness that was more a hallmark of Schoenberg’s Second Viennese School.

Die Bekehrte (Goethe) From Hugo Wolf: Kennst du das Land? (2016) Released by Harmonia Mundi Wolf: Die Bekehrte (Goethe)Goethe . . . Eichendorff . . . Mörike . . . These names resound in the ears of all who love