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# Hugo Wolf

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Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf 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 techniq

##  Quotes by Hugo Wolf

> [“I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too,before others quite reasonably, and it looks as tho I felt, too,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-wolf/i-appear-at-times-merry-and-in-good-heart-talk-too-before-others/)

[Hugo Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-wolf/)

[Depression](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c7/hugo-wolf-76142_depression_i-appear-at-times-merry-and-in-good-hear_690772.png)

> [I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-wolf/i-once-sent-him-a-song-and-asked-him-to-mark-a-cross-wherever-he/)

[Hugo Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-wolf/)

[Brahms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brahms/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da5/hugo-wolf-76142_brahms_i-once-sent-him-a-song-and-asked-him-to_1356517.png)

> [The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-wolf/the-soul-maintains-it-s-deathly-sleep-and-the-heart-bleeds-from-a/)

[Hugo Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-wolf/)

[Heart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heart/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/336/hugo-wolf-76142_heart_the-soul-maintains-it-s-deathly-sleep-an_1571501.png)

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