biography
| name: |
Wolf, Hugo (Philipp Jakob)
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pronunciation:
[volf]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1903)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Windischgraz, N Slovenia (formerly Austria). He studied at the Vienna Conservatory, then earned a living by teaching, conducting, and music criticism. From 1888 he composed c.300 songs, settings of poems by Goethe and others, the opera Der Corregidor (1895), and other works. Having lived most of his life in poverty, he became insane in 1897, and died in the asylum at Steinhof, near Vienna. |
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