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Updated: May 28, 2025
He had hardly finished the Mörike-Lieder when he began a series of Lieder on poems of Goethe. The same year, while still at Perchtoldsdorf, after having published a volume of Eichendorff Lieder, he became absorbed in a new cycle the Spanisches-Liederbuch, on Spanish poems translated by Heyse.
He wrote these forty-four songs in the same ecstasy of gladness: "What I write now, I write for the future.... Since Schubert and Schumann there has been nothing like it!" In 1890, two months after he had finished the Spanisches-Liederbuch, he composed another cycle of Lieder on poems called Alten Weisen, by the great Swiss writer Gottfried Keller.
The thirty-four folk-songs are brilliant, restless, whimsical, and wonderfully varied in form. Each represents a different subject, a personality drawn with incisive strokes, and the whole collection overflows with life. It is said that the Spanisches-Liederbuch is to Wolf's work what Tristan is to Wagner's work.
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