Richard Stokes

Gebundenes Buch

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf

Life, Letters, Lieder

Beschreibung

The 36 poets set by Wolf are each given their own chapter: a brief essay on the poet is followed by a note on Wolf's connection with the writer, extracts from letters that throw light on the Songs and convey his mood at the time of composition, and the texts and translations.

Autor

Richard Stokes, Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music, is a regular juror at international Song Competitions. For the operatic stage he has translated Wozzeck and La voix humaine (Opera North), and Parsifal, Lulu, L'Amour de loin and Jakob Lenz (ENO). His books include The Spanish Song Companion (with Jacqueline Cockburn), A French Song Companion (with Graham Johnson) (OUP), The Book of Lieder (Faber), and The Penguin Book of English Song - Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden. With Alfred Brendel he collaborated on the latter's Collected Poems: Playing the Human Game (Phaidon). Richard Stokes was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2012.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 156mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1002g
• ISBN-13: 9780571360697
• ISBN-10: 0571360696
• Artikelnr.: 62214198