Hugo Wolf: Letters to Melanie Kochert

by Hugo Wolf

This is a love story. It tells of an 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 K chert, the wife of a prominent Viennese jeweler with whom Wolf shared a lifelong emotional, spiritual, and artistic bond.

Wolf's letters to K chert-he wrote 245 between 1887 and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299194442
• ISBN13: 9780299194444
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"