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Music manuscripts from the collection of Helmut Nanz
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Autograph manuscript signed ('Hugo Wolf'), ‘Singt mein Schatz wie ein Fink’ (HWW 137⁄2), [Unterach am Attersee, 2 June 1890]
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Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Autograph manuscript signed ('Hugo Wolf'), ‘Singt mein Schatz wie ein Fink’ (HWW 137⁄2), [Unterach am Attersee, 2 June 1890]
The Stichvorlage, for voice and piano, three systems of three staves, 2½ pages, 340 x 262mm, with the indication 'Sehr mäßig', Wolf's autograph 'instructions to the engraver' in pencil at foot of p.1, 'die unterstrichenen Tempibezeichnungen sind mit gerader Schrift auszuführen', printer's annotations in blue and lead pencil. Provenance: Hauswedell & Nolte, 26 June 1992, lot 995.
'If my love sings like a finch / I'll sing like a nightingale'. Wolf's setting of this lyric poem is ‘notable for a chromatic accompaniment with drooping semitones’ (Songs, p. 206): the music 'develops from a light-hearted beginning to a vicious conclusion, with a postlude that breathes fortissimo fire’ (Complete Songs, p.278). This was the second of six poems from Gottfried Keller's cycle 'Alte Weisen' which were set by Wolf in the summer of 1890 during a stay in the Salzkammergut in a villa lent to him by his friend Friedrich Eckstein. The poem was also set to music by Brahms, in a version Wolf detested.
Autograph manuscript signed ('Hugo Wolf'), ‘Singt mein Schatz wie ein Fink’ (HWW 137⁄2), [Unterach am Attersee, 2 June 1890]
The Stichvorlage, for voice and piano, three systems of three staves, 2½ pages, 340 x 262mm, with the indication 'Sehr mäßig', Wolf's autograph 'instructions to the engraver' in pencil at foot of p.1, 'die unterstrichenen Tempibezeichnungen sind mit gerader Schrift auszuführen', printer's annotations in blue and lead pencil. Provenance: Hauswedell & Nolte, 26 June 1992, lot 995.
'If my love sings like a finch / I'll sing like a nightingale'. Wolf's setting of this lyric poem is ‘notable for a chromatic accompaniment with drooping semitones’ (Songs, p. 206): the music 'develops from a light-hearted beginning to a vicious conclusion, with a postlude that breathes fortissimo fire’ (Complete Songs, p.278). This was the second of six poems from Gottfried Keller's cycle 'Alte Weisen' which were set by Wolf in the summer of 1890 during a stay in the Salzkammergut in a villa lent to him by his friend Friedrich Eckstein. The poem was also set to music by Brahms, in a version Wolf detested.
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