45 Songs on Poems of Goethe and Eichendorff for Voice and Piano

by Hugo Wolf

In his relatively brief life, German composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) created one of the great legacies in the art of song. Among his most deeply affecting works are his settings of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Joseph von Eichendorff. This volume contains 45 of these songs, reprinted from authoritative German editions.
Wolf referred to Eichendorff's poems as "landscapes composed in poetry." He wrote most of the Eichendorff songs in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486288579
• ISBN13: 9780486288574
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"