Hugo Wolf

by Ernest Newman

A supreme master of German song, Hugo Wolf wrote 260 melodies and a pair of operas. This volume recounts the tragic story of the erratic genius's life and surveys some of his works, including 60 pages on Wolf's songs and 35 pages on his operas. "Very interesting and very stimulating." — The New York Times.

Hardcover

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.