Comparative Study In The Art Songs Of Hugo Wolf And Richard Strauss

Hugo Wolf(1860-1903)and Richard Strauss(1864-1949)both belong to the later period romanticism composers. Hugo Wolf composed approximately three hundred art songs in his whole life. Composing of art songs was his main domain of music creation. Richard Strauss composed more than tow hundred art songs in his whole life.It held the important status in his musical profession. Their art songs inherited the tradition created by Schubert and Schumann. Mature period overall style has the obvious later period romanticism style characteristic, and developed own independent artistic style in the different artistic view direction. Their art song creations have directly affected the development of later generation's art song, on behalf of artistic song to modern reforming.This article in to the romanticism, later period romanticism and the art song characteristic and the development synthesis unfolds in the foundation which and understood, complying with the historical development the vein draws out to two composers'biography ages and the understanding of creation styles'successional variation process, then from artistic aspects and so on view orientation, composing music technique, accompaniment and music connotation analyzes their artistic song creation styles. Finally, based on above macroscopic and microscopic analysis, summarized the similarities and differences of the singing styles of the two composers'art songs.The article introduced emphatically in the last chapter tow vocal music divertimentos,which represents the highest attainments in two composers'old age,and compared with the singing styles.In the conclusion, has appraised two virtuosos objectively the artistic song historical significance and the contribution, and explained the vital significance and the value of their art songs comparison research for the vocal music teaching and the vocal music.