"The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds"

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Hugo Wolf

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Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer known for his lieder, particularly the 'Italian Songbook,' which captures deep emotional expression.

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"I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'"

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"I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds."

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