Biography of Hugo Wolf

Hugo Wolf was born in 1860 in the great country of Austria. Slovenia, his home town is where he found interest in music. As a young child, Wolf practiced with the violin, the piano, and the organ. He was very skilled at his age and had the rest of his life to perfect his skill. He was deemed one of the Worlds greatest Romantic song composers of his time. Wolf composed more than two-hundred pieces of music written by such authors as Mrike and Goethe. Hugo Wolf lived to be forty-three and died on February 22, 1903 in Vienna, Austria. Many would say the reason for death was illness and depres…