This composer's lesser work includes the choral piece "Christ Nacht" and an intermezzo for string quartet in E flat major, along with a popular string quartet in D minor.
This composer's lesser work includes the choral piece "Christ Nacht" and an intermezzo for string quartet in E flat major, along with a popular string quartet in D minor. In the midst of his secret love affair with Melanie Kochert, the wife of his benefactor, he completed his symphonic poem Penthesilea. His most popular work includes his Italian Serenade, a string quartet in G major which spawned a later orchestral version arranged by Max Reger. Though he nearly finished the opera Manuel Venegas before being admitted to an insane asylum late in life, his only finished opera was, much like the work of Manuel da Falla, based on Alarcon's Three-Cornered Hat – that opera is Der Corregidor. FTP, name this 19th century Austrian composer who turned the works of writers like Eichendorff, Morike, and Goethe into books featuring hundreds and hundreds of songs, which often leads him to be dubbed the greatest composer of lieder.
This composer's lesser work includes the choral piece "Christ Nacht" and an intermezzo for string quartet in E flat major, along with a popular string quartet in D minor.
Hugo {Wolf}