Hugo Wolf
Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian
composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or
Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late
Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the
Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique.
Though he had several bursts of extraordinary productivity, particularly in 1888 and 1889,
depression frequently interrupted his creative periods, and his last composition was written in 1898, before he suffered a mental collapse caused by
syphilis.
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