A Match Made in Heaven

Richard Stokes, Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music and author of many books including The Book of Lieder and Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs, gives an introduction to the poet Eduard Mörike, in the 150th anniversary of the poet’s death. He explores the astonishing inspiration Mörike’s poems gave to the composer Hugo Wolf, and the 53 masterpieces that Wolf crafted in a feverish creative response.