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LOUIS SPOHR

5th April 1784 --- 22nd October 1859

For a full Bio on Louis Spohr please visit This website. Below is just a brief Bio.

Spohr was a German composer and violinist, born in 1784 in Brunswick, Germany. He spent his childhood at Seesen, where in 1789 he began to study
the violin and at 6 years old he was able to take part in chamber music.  He learned a great deal from studying the scores of Mozart, and later became
a student of Frank Eck.

His first violin concerto was  printed in 1803 and in 1805 he became violinist to the duke of Gotha.   It was around this time Spohr wrote two Opera's
Die Prufung and Alurna but Spohr was unable to get them publish. He produced his first Symphony in E flat in 1812, in that year he became leader of
the orchestra at the theatre an dew Wien Vienna,  but he resigned his post in 1815,  and toured Italy,  returning to Germany  to become conductor of
the Opera at Frankfurt in 1817.

In 1822 Mendelssohn, then a boy of 13, visited Cassel,  a friendship spang up between the two,  which cease only with Mendelssohn's death in 1847,
in 1831 Spohr published his Violin School. The year 1834 was saddened by the death of his first wife,  a Dorette Scheidler,  a celebrated harpist. Two
years later he married  a pianist, Marianne Pfeiffer.   He performed The Crucifixion  at Cassel in 1835,  and which was  sung in English at the Norwich
festival of 1839, with an effect which he later referred to as his greatest triumph of his life

Spohr's compositions for the violin include concertos,  quartets,  duets and other concerted pieces and solos,  and among these a high place taken by
four double quartets, i.e, octets for two antiphonal string-quartets groups, an art form of his own invention, he died in Cassel in 1859.

Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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