Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. 'Music of the future'? The nature of the Wagnerian inheritance
• 2. 'Wagner of the Lied'? Wolf as critic of Wagner and Wagnerism
• 3. Small things can also enchant us - Wolf's challenge to nineteenth-century views of song
• 4. 'Poetry the man, music the woman'? Wolf's reworking in his Moerike songs of Wagner's aesthetics of words and music
• 5. The integrity of musical language - questions of form and meaning in Wolf's Goethe songs
• 6. The Wolfian perspective - comparisons with the songs of Strauss and Mahler
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.