Hugo Wolf songs, part 2

"Erschaffen und Beleben” (from the Goethe Lieder, no. 33) is in four quatrains, each set differently by Wolf in the voice, but throughout with a consistent left/right quarter-note alternating rhythm in the piano. At the outset, B4 (as written) is established as a focal tone:

The setting of the fourth quatrain recovers and prolongs that B and eventually leads to a ^5-^6-(^8)-^7-^8 ascending Urlinie in the major key.

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