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100 1 a| Wolf, Hugo,d| 1860-1903.=| ^A43959;

240 10 a| Briefe an Melanie Köchert.l| English=| ^A618375;

245 10 a| Letters to Melanie Köchert /c| Hugo Wolf ; edited by Franz Grasberger ; English edition and translation by Louise McClelland Urban ; foreword by Martin Katz.;

300 a| xxxviii, 293 pages, 16 pages of plates :b| illustrations, portraits ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Translation of: Briefe an Melanie Köchert.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index.;

505 0 a| Foreword / by Martin Katz -- Translator's introduction -- Insight into the personality / by Franz Grasberger -- Letters. 1887-1891 ; 1892-1894 ; 1895-1897 ; 1899 -- Epilogue / by Franz Grasberger -- Annotations -- Chronology -- Glossary of frequently mentioned names -- Indexes.;

520 a| This book tells the extraordinary epistolary relationship between Hugo Wolf, one of the greatest masters of the German art song, whose dedication to the poetic spirit of his music was equaled only by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, and Melanie Köchert, the wife of a prominent Viennese jeweler with whom Wolf shared a lifelong emotional, spiritual, and artistic bond. Wolf's letters to Köchert--he wrote 245 between 1887 and 1899--were composed during a period of almost unprecedented cultural upheaval in Europe, in the shadow of Vienna during the era of Freud, Mahler, and Klimt. They reveal Wolf at his most optimistic, celebrating his concert successes and the solitude he believed was so precious to his ability to compose. They follow Wolf through times of overwhelming despair, when his musical failures left him profoundly alienated, overcome, as he revealed to Köchert, "by a feeling of unspeakable emptiness and desolation." And they follow Wolf as he struggled to compose the 250 astounding art songs that are his creative legacy, and his almost simultaneous descent into madness.;

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Letters to Melanie Köchert / Hugo Wolf ; edited by Franz Grasberger ; English edition and translation by Louise McClelland Urban ; foreword by Martin Katz.

Author/creator	Wolf, Hugo
Other author	Grasberger, Franz, editor.
Other author	Katz, Martin, 1945- writer of foreword.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Schirmer Books ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.
Description	xxxviii, 293 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Subjects	Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903--Correspondence. Köchert, Melanie. Composers--Austria. --Correspondence.

Uniform title	Briefe an Melanie Köchert. English
Contents	Foreword / by Martin Katz -- Translator's introduction -- Insight into the personality / by Franz Grasberger -- Letters. 1887-1891 ; 1892-1894 ; 1895-1897 ; 1899 -- Epilogue / by Franz Grasberger -- Annotations -- Chronology -- Glossary of frequently mentioned names -- Indexes.
Abstract	This book tells the extraordinary epistolary relationship between Hugo Wolf, one of the greatest masters of the German art song, whose dedication to the poetic spirit of his music was equaled only by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, and Melanie Köchert, the wife of a prominent Viennese jeweler with whom Wolf shared a lifelong emotional, spiritual, and artistic bond. Wolf's letters to Köchert--he wrote 245 between 1887 and 1899--were composed during a period of almost unprecedented cultural upheaval in Europe, in the shadow of Vienna during the era of Freud, Mahler, and Klimt. They reveal Wolf at his most optimistic, celebrating his concert successes and the solitude he believed was so precious to his ability to compose. They follow Wolf through times of overwhelming despair, when his musical failures left him profoundly alienated, overcome, as he revealed to Köchert, "by a feeling of unspeakable emptiness and desolation." And they follow Wolf as he struggled to compose the 250 astounding art songs that are his creative legacy, and his almost simultaneous descent into madness.
General note	Translation of: Briefe an Melanie Köchert.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index.
LCCN	90041667
ISBN	0028730216 :

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