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Updated: May 8, 2025
Weber brought out "Faust" at Prague in 1816, and the cantata was first performed at Franken-hausen in 1815, at a musical festival on the anniversary of the battle of Leipsic, a battle which turned the scale of Napoleon's career. The same year also witnessed the quarrel between Spohr and Count Palffy, which resulted in the rupture of the former's engagement.
Spohr, who were to be the joint conductors of the festival music.
The influence of Viotti on violin music was a very deep one, not only in virtue of his compositions, but in the fact that he molded the style not only of many of the best violinists of his own day, but of those that came after him. Birth and Early Life of the Violinist Spohr. He is presented with his First Violin at six. The French Emigré Dufour uses his Influence with Dr.
He therefore visited Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, etc. He was, of course, compared to many of the great violinists of his time, who all had their special merits. One criticism, in which Sivori is compared with Spohr, may be interesting: "Spohr is of colossal stature, and looks more like an ancient Roman than a Brunswicker; Sivori is the antithesis of Spohr in stature.
The following paragraph, reproduced from an Italian musical periodical, published shortly after this concert, probably represents very truly the state of his talent at that period: "M. Ole Bull plays the music of Spohr, May-seder, Pugnani, and others, without knowing the true character of the music he plays, and partly spoils it by adding a color of his own.
When it was given the next year in London under Spohr's own direction, the president of the Sacred Harmonic Society presented the composer at the close of the performance with a superb silver testimonial in the name of the society. Louis Spohr had now become one of the patriarchs of music, for his life spanned a longer arch in the history of the art than any contemporary except Cherubini.
Ten years since they would crowd the hall to hear the “Carnival.” Had Madam Urso presented the Beethoven Spohr, or the Mendelssohn Concertos, the people would not have listened in patience through a single performance. If they heard it at all, it would be under a sort of silent protest, and the next time the piece was offered there would be nobody there.
Old Spohr, when he heard Tannhäuser, though his ears rebelled against the unaccustomed discords, spoke about the Olympian inspiration and energy he felt in the work; and this criticism and very just and fine criticism it was: as just and fine as it was unexpected from an old-world musician such as Spohr is equally applicable to Tristan.
Mayseder was considered the foremost violinist in Vienna, but he never travelled as a virtuoso. When Spohr went first to Leipzig and was unknown, he had to find a way by which he could attract attention to himself, in those days the advertising agent was not much in evidence, so that he might give a concert with a reasonable prospect of success.
It may be said of Spohr that, as Mozart raised opera to a higher standard, as Beethoven uplifted the ideal of the orchestra, as Clementi laid a solid foundation for piano-playing, so Spohr's creative force as a violinist and writer for the violin has established the grandest school for this instrument, to which all the foremost contemporary artists acknowledge their obligations. Dr.
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