Wolf, Hugo. (1860–1903). Rare printed death announcement. Large printed death announcement on the death of the Austrian composer, issued by the Hugo Wolf-Verein and the Richard Wagner-Verein, Vienna, dated February 22, 1903. The notice gives details of the composer's death in the early hours of the day and announces the funeral to be held at 3 p.m. on February 24th. Folio, with thick black borders. In very good condition and extremely rare.
The composer died tragically young of syphilus while committed to an asylum for the insane. There, "he had a large room with a piano and a view of the Stephansdom, but Wolf was incapable of all music-making after the summer of 1899 (among his last comprehensible words was the exclamation ‘loathsome music’) and thought that the view was only a painting. Melanie [his wife] visited him three times a week during the long agony of his insanity until his death on 22 February 1903. She then sank increasingly into melancholia and self-reproach (‘I have been a bad wife’, she is reputed to have said repeatedly) until finally she threw herself from the fourth-floor window of her Vienna home to her death on 21 March 1906. She is buried in the family plot at Hietzing, and Wolf, whom she loved so devotedly, is buried in the grove of honour in Vienna's central cemetery, by the graves of Schubert and Beethoven." (Eric Sams/Susan Youens, Grove Online)
The composer died tragically young of syphilus while committed to an asylum for the insane. There, "he had a large room with a piano and a view of the Stephansdom, but Wolf was incapable of all music-making after the summer of 1899 (among his last comprehensible words was the exclamation ‘loathsome music’) and thought that the view was only a painting. Melanie [his wife] visited him three times a week during the long agony of his insanity until his death on 22 February 1903. She then sank increasingly into melancholia and self-reproach (‘I have been a bad wife’, she is reputed to have said repeatedly) until finally she threw herself from the fourth-floor window of her Vienna home to her death on 21 March 1906. She is buried in the family plot at Hietzing, and Wolf, whom she loved so devotedly, is buried in the grove of honour in Vienna's central cemetery, by the graves of Schubert and Beethoven." (Eric Sams/Susan Youens, Grove Online)
Wolf, Hugo. (1860–1903). Rare printed death announcement. Large printed death announcement on the death of the Austrian composer, issued by the Hugo Wolf-Verein and the Richard Wagner-Verein, Vienna, dated February 22, 1903. The notice gives details of the composer's death in the early hours of the day and announces the funeral to be held at 3 p.m. on February 24th. Folio, with thick black borders. In very good condition and extremely rare.
The composer died tragically young of syphilus while committed to an asylum for the insane. There, "he had a large room with a piano and a view of the Stephansdom, but Wolf was incapable of all music-making after the summer of 1899 (among his last comprehensible words was the exclamation ‘loathsome music’) and thought that the view was only a painting. Melanie [his wife] visited him three times a week during the long agony of his insanity until his death on 22 February 1903. She then sank increasingly into melancholia and self-reproach (‘I have been a bad wife’, she is reputed to have said repeatedly) until finally she threw herself from the fourth-floor window of her Vienna home to her death on 21 March 1906. She is buried in the family plot at Hietzing, and Wolf, whom she loved so devotedly, is buried in the grove of honour in Vienna's central cemetery, by the graves of Schubert and Beethoven." (Eric Sams/Susan Youens, Grove Online)
The composer died tragically young of syphilus while committed to an asylum for the insane. There, "he had a large room with a piano and a view of the Stephansdom, but Wolf was incapable of all music-making after the summer of 1899 (among his last comprehensible words was the exclamation ‘loathsome music’) and thought that the view was only a painting. Melanie [his wife] visited him three times a week during the long agony of his insanity until his death on 22 February 1903. She then sank increasingly into melancholia and self-reproach (‘I have been a bad wife’, she is reputed to have said repeatedly) until finally she threw herself from the fourth-floor window of her Vienna home to her death on 21 March 1906. She is buried in the family plot at Hietzing, and Wolf, whom she loved so devotedly, is buried in the grove of honour in Vienna's central cemetery, by the graves of Schubert and Beethoven." (Eric Sams/Susan Youens, Grove Online)