Hugo Wolf 1860-1903
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HUGO WOLF.–A name that inspires us with reverence, for the composer’s songs are amongst the most exquisite memorials of modern German music. During his lifetime Hugo Wolf failed to obtain recognition and was appreciated only by a small band of admirers; he did not live to see his work command the applause of the multitude. In 1897 paralysis attacked him and clouded his mind; he was released by death on February 22, 1903, at the age of forty-two (born March 13, 1860). The death mask was taken in the Vienna Public Asylum by the sculptor Seiffert, and passed to the Municipal Collections in the