Italian songbook

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Under the name Italian Songbook , Hugo Wolf set 46 popular Italian love poems to music in Paul Heyse's translation in two books of 22 and 24 songs respectively. The first part was written in 1890/91, the second in 1896 and is one of the composer's last works, along with the opera The Corregidor and the Michelangelo songs .

The character of the songs ranges from praise for being in love and the beauty of the person you love (e.g. you are the most beautiful ) to mocking and quarreling songs (you are proud, beautiful child , devour the abyss of my beloved hut) to bitter ones Lamentations of lovesickness and abandonment (What's the anger for, darling?) . All in all, moods ranging from longing to melancholy to painful predominate, sometimes with a religious appeal.

The songs are designed for high voice ( soprano or tenor ), but are sometimes also played transposed by medium or low voices (such as by Hermann Prey ), whereby the content of the poem often indicates whether a female or male voice is used should perform, but this is nowhere mandatory. The one-and-a-half-hour work is seldom heard as a whole; excerpts are usually performed in a different order.

The individual titles and original key of the songs are:

Part One:

  1. Even small things can delight us (A major)
  2. I was told you were traveling far away (G major / D major)
  3. You are the most beautiful (A flat major)
  4. Blessed be that through whom the world was born (E flat major)
  5. Blessed are you blind (E flat major / A flat major)
  6. Who called you? (F major)
  7. The moon has raised a grave lament (E flat minor / C flat major)
  8. Now let's make peace (E flat major)
  9. That all your charms were painted (F major)
  10. You think you can catch me with a thread (B flat major)
  11. How long has been my desire (F minor)
  12. No, young sir! (G major)
  13. You are proud, beautiful child (E major / F sharp minor)
  14. Journeyman, do we want to wrap ourselves in robes (G major)
  15. My love is so small (F major)
  16. You young people (C major)
  17. And do you want to see your loved one die (A flat major)
  18. Lift up your blond head (A flat major)
  19. We were both silent for a long time (E flat major)
  20. My lover sings at the house (G minor)
  21. They tell me your mother doesn't want it (A minor)
  22. To serenade you (C major)

Part II:

  1. What kind of song do you want to be sung? (B flat major)
  2. I no longer eat my bread dry (E flat minor / E flat major)
  3. My lover invited me to the table (F major)
  4. I was told (c minor)
  5. I'm already stretching out my tired limbs in bed (A flat major)
  6. You tell me that I am not a princess (E flat major)
  7. Well I know your status (C major)
  8. Just let them go! (G major / G minor)
  9. How am I supposed to be happy? (alternating / D major)
  10. What's the anger, my darling? (c minor)
  11. If I die, wrap my limbs in flowers (A flat major)
  12. And get up early in the morning from bed (E major)
  13. Benedeit the blessed mother (E flat major)
  14. When you, my love, rise to heaven (G flat major)
  15. How much time i lost (g minor)
  16. If you touch me with your eyes (G major)
  17. Bless the green! (A major)
  18. O would your house be as transparent as a glass (A minor)
  19. Tonight I got up (D minor)
  20. I can no longer sing (A minor)
  21. Be quiet for once! (A minor)
  22. O would you know how much I am because of you (E minor)
  23. Devour the abyss of my dearest hut (D minor)
  24. I have a loved one living in Penna (F major)

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