Night is like a quiet sea
Song of the week: Die Nacht (H. Wolf) - W. Holzmair, I. Cooper
Hugo Wolf's great compositional moment arrived in 1888. In February of that year he began the Mörike-Lieder, and then came, one after another until 1891, the Eichendorff-Lieder, the Goethe-Lieder, the Spanisches Liederbuch, and the first part of the Italienisches Liederbuch. Afterwards he suffered a long and painful health and creative crisis, until he was able to write the opera Der Corregidor and, right after, in 1896, the second part of the Italienisches Liederbuch [...]
