In Lobo's honor
Here's a quiz from my friend Lobo, who's a classical music person. It tells you which dead German composer you are. I'm an '80s music person and I don't even know who Hugo Wolf is. But the quiz told me I am he. Apparently, he had many issues :)
Hugo Wolf had serious issues. He had wide mood swings and many illnesses throughout his life. His creative periods were also very sporadic, and while he constantly strove for musical perfection, he has few major works. As he grew older, his mood swings and illnesses turned to manic depression, and finally culminated in a complete mental breakdown. He was committed to the insane asylum under the impression that he was royalty, and thus didn't recall or have the facility to compose any more.
A few key works: Moerike Lieder, Goethe Lieder, Der Corregidor
Check it out:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jlozos/gercomp/
I have a feeling you won't be seeing this quiz on Blogthings. BTW, Disco 3, by the Pet Shop Boys, is worth checking out. "If looks could kill..."
Hugo Wolf had serious issues. He had wide mood swings and many illnesses throughout his life. His creative periods were also very sporadic, and while he constantly strove for musical perfection, he has few major works. As he grew older, his mood swings and illnesses turned to manic depression, and finally culminated in a complete mental breakdown. He was committed to the insane asylum under the impression that he was royalty, and thus didn't recall or have the facility to compose any more.
A few key works: Moerike Lieder, Goethe Lieder, Der Corregidor
Check it out:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jlozos/gercomp/
I have a feeling you won't be seeing this quiz on Blogthings. BTW, Disco 3, by the Pet Shop Boys, is worth checking out. "If looks could kill..."
Comments
Here's some Wolf info to brighten your day:
Wolf described one song as ‘by far the best thing that I have done up to now … the music is of so striking a character and of such intensity that it would lacerate the nervous system of a block of marble’. The next day he retracted the declaration to say that what he had written that morning ‘is a million times better. When you have heard this song you can have only one wish – to die’.
--Lobo