This is the Study of tie 19th century German romantic Lied, esepcially in Hugo Wolf's Morike Lieder.
In no country has the song held so prominant a place as in Germany, and in no other country has this form of music been carried to greater perfecti...
This is the Study of tie 19th century German romantic Lied, esepcially in Hugo Wolf's Morike Lieder.
In no country has the song held so prominant a place as in Germany, and in no other country has this form of music been carried to greater perfection.
The song belongs equally to poetry and music, so the advance of the song depends on that of poetry obviously.
So the appearance of the great poet like Goethe, Heme. Mullex, Musse, Morike, and Shilled has accomplished the German Lied in its artistic perfection and lead up to its highest level in 19th century.
Hugo Wolf wrote 242 Lieder, solo song with piano accompaniment, in short period from 1887 to 1897.
In his early days, he was deeply sensitive to literature, and it is therefore not surprising that in his earlist songs the mosts pronounced influence is that of Schumann.
53 of the Morike Lieder. were written in 1889, through that composition, Wolf had formed himself and his individuality and renewed his self-confidence.
The outsanding attribute of Wolf's Lieder is the close relationship between poet and composer, between words and music.
He wanted to guide the listner's soul toward the poem. So he immerses himself so deeply in a poem that he seems to take on the poet's personality, and then to illuminate and enhance the verse by musical means.
wolf tried to combine Schumann's Lyricism with the declamatory style of Wagnerian circle using their chromatic inharmonic idiom to the point of saturation.
And his Lyric Gesamtkunstwerk carried the principle of the instrumentally dominated song to its confines, for his melodies are often the results of his exceedingly rich harmonic manipulations, the song rising from the lone painting of the accompanying piano.
He would seem already to have reached the end of all the original German poetry capable of inspiring him to music.
So the examination of his work should end this survey of development of song in the 18th and 19th centuries.