Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780521028080
Subjects: Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Vocal music; Music; Music/Songbooks; Composers & Musicians - Country & Folk; Individual Composer & Musician; Biography & Autobiography-Composers & Musicians - Country & Folk; Music / General; Wolf, Hugo, --1860-1903--Criticism and interp; Wolf, Hugo,--1860-1903--Criticism and interpretation; History & Criticism - By Composer; History & Criticism - General
First sentence: When in 1900 the famous Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick labelled Mahler, Strauss and Wolf together as the 'Musical Secession', he could hardly have found a less congenial group of bedfellows.