On Sunday afternoon, continuing a series surveying works of Felix Mendelssohn and Hugo Wolf, Emmanuel Music presents a concert including Wolf’s “Michelangelo-Lieder,” settings (in Walter Robert-Tornow ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has been hosting Sunday afternoon concerts for the past 50 years. We stop by a recent gathering to hear the Venice Quartet playing the Italian Serenade ...

It wouldn’t be difficult to construct a history of 19th-century Germanic music that left out the name of Hugo Wolf entirely. Part of the reason is the mixed reputation of Lieder, or solo song.

We just can't help ourselves when it comes to marking the anniversaries of composers. Such rote celebration is practically Pavlovian. This year, for example, Schumann and Chopin—each born in ...

When Hugo Wolf stepped out of his comfort zone, he hit a home run. One of his very few purely instrumental attempts was his lovely Italian Serenade for String Quartet. The Calder Quartet played it at ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A generation ago the exalted soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf often advertised her solo recitals with the rider ...

Iain Burnside looks at the many ways of interpreting the songs of Hugo Wolf. Includes performances by Gerard Souzay, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, John McCormack, Peter Schreier, Tiana ...

One of the great song writers, Wolf had an innate ability to capture the spirit and character of each poem, combining Schumann’s genius for striking exactly the right balance between vocal line and ...

Hugo Wolf, 95, beloved husband of Fanny, nee Reinhardt; loving father of Judith and Jerrold (Janet) Wolf; devoted grandfather of Franklin and Rachel; dear brother of the late Rena (the late Warner) ...