Hugo Wolf

by Ernest Newman

This is a facsimile reprint of the original book by Ernest Newman, rebuilt using the latest technology. There are no poor, missing or blurred pages and all photographic images have been professionally restored. At Yokai Publishing we believe that by restoring this title to print it will live on for generations to come.

298 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2010

About the author

Noted music critic and musicologist, Newman made his name writing for The Sunday Times, and is still regarded as one of the 20th century's most eminent critics.

Reviews

[Joelsie · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a composer who lived in a fabulous time in a fabulous city, this book is amazingly dull. Reads like a grocery list of facts, statistics, dates, etc. At the end the author gives a somewhat blistering criticism of the songs of Schubert to build his argument about the songs of Wolf - the irony is Wolf adored Schubert's songs.

If you're a Wolf fan, there's not much out there to read - and there is some interesting stuff in this book - but you have to delve through a lot of annoyingness to get thee.