A Wealth of Gifts
Hugo Wolf's Mörike-Lieder -
heard by ROBERT ANDERSON'... much expressive dexterity ...'
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The fifty-three lieder to poems by Eduard Mörike were written in six months of 1888. Wolf was astounded at his own creativity, which relied on two periods of mainly wintry seclusion. The house in a village not far by train from Vienna belonged to the Werner family. Wolf was warned that conditions were primitive...
Copyright © 19 October 2011
Robert Anderson, London UK
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