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Hugo Wolf

1860 - 1903

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Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (; German: [vɔlf]; 13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique. Though he had several bursts of extraordinary productivity, particularly in 1888 and 1889, depression frequently interrupted his creative periods, and his last composition was written in 1898, before he suffered a mental collapse caused by syphilis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Wolf is the 168th most popular composer (up from 172nd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Composer.

Hugo Wolf is most famous for his lieder, which are German art songs.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hugo Wolf ranks 168 out of 1,451. Before him are Eduard Strauss, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Kurt Weill, Adrian Willaert, William Byrd, and Karol Szymanowski. After him are Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gian Carlo Menotti, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Michel Legrand, and Luciano Berio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Hugo Wolf ranks 20. Before him are James Ensor, J. M. Barrie, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Anders Zorn, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. After him are Jane Addams, Hjalmar Branting, René Lalique, John J. Pershing, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, and Louis Wain. Among people deceased in 1903, Hugo Wolf ranks 12. Before him are Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Alois Hitler, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Alexander I of Serbia. After him are Otto Weininger, Gemma Galgani, Gotse Delchev, George Gissing, Alexander Bain, and Draga Mašin.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Hugo Wolf ranks 7 out of 340. Before him are Melania Trump (1970), Giuseppe Tartini (1692), Arkan (1952), Slavoj Žižek (1949), Barbara of Cilli (1392), and France Prešeren (1800). After him are Franz Miklosich (1813), Jože Plečnik (1872), Santorio Santorio (1561), Milan Kučan (1941), Janez Drnovšek (1950), and Edvard Kardelj (1910).

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Among COMPOSERS In Slovenia

Among composers born in Slovenia, Hugo Wolf ranks 1. After him are Jacobus Gallus (1550), and Slavko Avsenik (1929).

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