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Composer
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
| 1876-1948Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was born in Venice in 1876. He studied in Rome (1891–92) and Munich (1892–95), where he was a pupil of Joseph Rheinberger. In Munich, he celebrated his greatest successes in the years before the outbreak of the First World War, mainly with his compositions of comic operas. After the First World War, he was unable to build on his pre-war successes, perhaps because his music, written in a late or post-Romantic style, had no connection to the contemporary musical language of modernism. Personal details
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Editor
Barbara Mohn
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Songwriter / Librettist
Heinrich Heine
| 1797-1856Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) is regarded as one of the most important German poets of the 19th century. He was born in Düsseldorf and is best known for his lyric poetry, which combines Romanticism with sharp social criticism. Many of his works deal with love, nature and freedom. Because of his political views, Heine lived in exile in Paris for many years.
He also occupies a prominent place in the history of music. His lyrical texts were set to music by numerous composers and had a particularly profound influence on the Romantic art song. Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Hugo Wolf, in particular, created musical works of enduring significance based on Heine’s poems. The poetic combination of linguistic simplicity, emotional depth and often ironic ambiguity offered composers a wide range of possibilities for musical interpretation. As a result, Heine’s poetry became a central part of the Romantic art-song repertoire and continues to influence vocal music to this day.
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