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Updated: May 29, 2025
And lastly, in the same year, he began his Italienisches-Liederbuch, on Italian poems, translated by Geibel and Heyse. And then then there was silence. The history of Wolf is one of the most extraordinary in the history of art, and gives one a better glimpse of the mysteries of genius than most histories do. Let us make a little résumé.
The work was not a success in spite of its musical qualities, and the poorness of the libretto helped on its failure. But the main thing was that Wolf's creative genius had returned. In April, 1896, he wrote straight away the twenty-two songs of the second volume of the Italienisches-Liederbuch.
He wished to write thirty-three Italian Lieder, but he had to stop after the twenty-second, and in 1891 he published one volume only of the Italienisches-Liederbuch. The second volume was completed in a month, five years later, in 1896. One may imagine the tortures that this solitary man suffered.
It may sometimes express a fugitive thought, a brief record of a poetic impression or some little action, or it may be a great epic or dramatic picture. Müller remarks that Wolf put more into a poem than the poet himself as in the Italienisches-Liederbuch. It is the worst reproach they can make about him, and it is not an ordinary one.
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