Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hugo Wolf

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Last updated on October 8, 2024.

Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique.

Austrian - Composer | March 13, 1860 - February 22, 1903

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I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

Hugo Wolf

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

Hugo Wolf

The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds

Hugo Wolf

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hugo Wolf

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