The Songs of Hugo Wolff

With a foreword by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, Eric Sams' study (1961, revised 1983) is a notable landmark in the establishment of Wolf as one of the supreme masters of German song. 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.
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. Each song is dated, its keys identified and vocal range determined.

CONTENIDO:

Foreword by Gerald Moore to the First Edition (1961)
Preface to the First Edition (1961)
Preface to the Second Edition

Wolf as a Song-Writer

- The Songs
I. The first published songs:
Six songs for a woman's voice
Six songs to words by Scheffel, Mörike, Goethe and Kerner
II. The Mörike songs
III. The Eichendorff songs
IV. The Goethe songs
V. The Spanish Songbook
VI. The Keller Songs
VII. The Italian Songbook
VIII. The last published songs:
Three songs to words by Reinick
Four songs to words by Neine, Shakespeare and Byron
The Michelangelo songs

Annex: Three songs from Ibsen's The Feast at Solhaug
Index A: The Songs
Index B: General