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Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)

Lot 85
11.12.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1349722
Lot 85 | Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 10 000
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Autograph manuscript, ‘Anakreons Grab’ (HWW 120/29), [composed Vienna, 4 November 1888]
Two pages, 344 x 263mm, on four systems of three staves, in ink with some emendations in pencil to the music; Wolf cancels the indication ‘leise’ and amends it to ‘zart’, while the tempo is here ‘Sehr ruhig’ (in the published version ‘Sehr langsam und ruhig’). Provenance: Stargardt, 4 March 1994, lot 1182.

One of Hugo Wolf's most famous songs. Part of Wolf's great cycle of Goethe settings composed in the last months of 1888, this ‘…became one of Wolf’s most popular songs, and in a letter to Melanie Köchert of 10 June 1896 he describes it as “unvermeidlich” (“unavoidable”, “ubiquitous”). The accompaniment seems to suggest the gentle bending of trees above his grave, and although the tonality darkens at “Grab” (“grave”), the whole song breathes serenity and peace, particularly at the wonderful pause between “Es ist” and the pianissimo “Anakreons Ruh”. (Complete Songs, p.157). ‘Wolf’s music has an atmosphere of tenderness and beatitude with hardly a parallel in song. His setting seems to re-create not only the poem itself, but the actual experience that he imagines as having inspired it’ (Songs, p. 143).

The song was first performed on 15 December 1888, barely six weeks after its composition, by Ferdinand Jäger at the Bösendorfer-Saal in Vienna, with Wolf himself at the piano, in his first public performance as an accompanist for his own songs.
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