"For me the sovereign principle in art is rigorous, harsh and inexorable truth, truth to the point of cruelty." -- Hugo Wolf
In 1888, in a splendid outpouring of creativity, Austrian composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) composed 53 songs set to work of the German poet Eduard M?rike. The suddenness, spontaneity, and productiveness of this period in Wolf's life has been likened to similar songwriting outbursts by Schubert in 1814-15 and Schumann in...