Wolf, Hugo

Wiki entry: Hugo Wolf

International Music Score Library Project [IMSLP] entry: Hugo Wolf

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) was an Austrian composer best known for his lieder (songs).

PieceMP3MidiGenre
Der Gartner (The Gardener) MIDI   song   CD2  
The Gardener is a setting of a poem by Moerike, and is Anne's favourite song. Sequencing here is from the IMSLP PD version of this song, checked against the Peters edition in my own collection.
A princess goes riding past the gardner, and he gets a little romantic. The words are in the MIDI version as lyric events; I wouldn't want to inflict my singing on the world, so the song is interpreted as a choir.
YouTube has versions sung by Kathleen Ferrier and by Felicity Lott, if you want to know what this really should sound like. Also what the words are ...!


Sequencing: Copyright © Andy Walker, 2020. You may use all my work freely for private purposes; commercial use is permitted only with my permission.

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