On The Artistic Style And Singing Exploration Of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s Modern Italian Song Four Love Poems

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari(1876-1948)is a modern Italian composer and an outstanding representative of late romantic music.When he was young,he inherited his father’s career and studied painting,but because of his special talent for music,he resolutely gave up his original ideal and became a musician.He suffered a lot during the First World War and the Second World War because of his wandering life between Italy and Germany.It was these sufferings that made him a genius.Ferrari’s major achievements in his life are in the field of hi opera,and his representative works include Susanna’s secret,I gioielli della Madonna and L’amore medico,which are still performed all over the world.But Ferrari has a wide range of genres,including all kinds of instrumental music,Divertimento,chorus and so on.Among them,two groups of Italian songs Quattro Rispetti,which were created in the early 20 th century,are his early important representative works of vocal music,indicating the basic formation of his personal style.This paper first makes an understanding of Wolf-Ferrari’s personal life background,including his parents,study,marriage,career,writing and so on.It also makes a vertical understanding of the status of these two groups of Italian songs in his writing career,as well as his life state when he wrote these two groups of works.Secondly,we will understand the historical and political background of these two groups of songs.The kingdom of Italy has been divided into several centuries in history,in which the development of songs has gone through hardships.In the second half of the 19 th century,the people constantly broke out wars to compete with the feudal forces.The consciousness of national independence bred from this had a profound impact on the ideological connotation of artistic works.At the same time,it also combs the content and internal logic of the lyrics.Then,the author will use music examples to analyze and summarize the language content,musical structure,accompaniment texture and other characteristics of the two groups of works,revealing that he inherited the characteristics of Italian style art songs,combined with the creation environment at that time,formed his own unique artistic style,formed the internal style of passion and freedom,gorgeous but close to nature.Finally,the author will explore the related singing of four of his two groups of songs.On the basis of the feelings produced in the process of his own concert practice,the author will combine the treatment of the singers,in order to study the way closer to the composer’s heart.So that readers can have a deeper feeling and understanding of the artistic charm of Ferrari’s two groups of works,and provide some reference and help for the singers who study and sing this work.