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	Ludwig Spohr - LoveToKnow 1911
		Spohr had a triumphant success both as composer and as virtuoso; and he on his side was delighted with the Philharmonic orchestra.
		Spohr entered upon his duties at Cassel on the 1st of January 1822, and soon afterwards began his sixth opera, Jessonda, which he produced in 1823.
		Spohr's resources at Cassel enabled him to produce his new works on a grander scale and with more perfect detail than he could have attained in a less well-endowed post; and he never failed to use these privileges to the advantage of other meritorious composers, though as a critic he was very difficult to please.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ludwig_Spohr (1398 words)

	Louis Spohr: Biography - Classic Cat
		Spohr was born in Braunschweig in the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and showed talent for the violin from his early childhood.
		Spohr later worked as conductor at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna (1813-1815), where he became friendly with Beethoven; subsequently he was opera director at Frankfurt (1817-1819) where he was able to stage his own operas — the first of which, Faust, had been rejected in Vienna.
		Spohr's longest post, from 1822 until his death in Kassel, was as the director of music at the court of Kassel, a position offered him on the suggestion of Carl Maria von Weber.
	www.classiccat.net /spohr_l/biography.htm (817 words)

	Louis Spohr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spohr was born in Braunschweig in the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and showed talent for the violin from his early childhood.
		Spohr lated worked as conductor at Theater an der Wien, Vienna (1813-1815), where he became friendly with Ludwig van Beethoven, and as opera director at Frankfurt (1817-1819) where he was able to stage his own operas — the first of which, Faust, had been rejected in Vienna.
		Spohr's longest post, from 1822 until his death, was as the director of music at the court of Kassel, a position offered him on the suggestion of Carl Maria von Weber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spohr (681 words)

	Louis Spohr -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There he met the 18-year-old (A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers) harpist Dorette Scheidler, daughter of one of the court singers, and fell in love with her.
		Spohr's longest post, from 1822 until his death, was as the director of music at the court of (additional info and facts about Kassel) Kassel, a position offered him on the suggestion of (German conductor and composer of Romantic operas (1786-1826)) Carl Maria von Weber.
		Among Spohr's (Serious music performed by a small group of musicians) chamber music is a series of no less than 36 (An instrumental quartet with 2 violins and a viola and a cello) string quartets, as well as four interesting double quartets for two string quartets.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/louis_spohr.htm (585 words)

	LUDWIG SPOHR - LoveToKnow Article on LUDWIG SPOHR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Spohr had a triumphant success both as composer and as virtuoso; and he on his side was delighted with the Philharmonic orchestra.
		Spohrs resources at Cassel enabled him to produce his new works on a grander scale and with more perfect detail than he could have attained in a less well-endowed post; and he never failed to use these privileges to the advantage of other meritorious composers, though as a critic he was very difficult to please.
		Spohrs Selbsthio graphic is a delightful document, revealing a character the generosity of which was conspicuous through all its complacent intellectual foibles.
	88.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SP/SPOHR_LUDWIG.htm (1422 words)

	The Spohr Society of Great Britain
		The Spohr Society was formed in 1969 as the British branch of the Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft based in the German city of Kassel (where a Spohr Museum in the Bellevue Palace is open at weekends).
		Spohr was born in the North German city of Braunschweig (Brunswick) on 5 April 1784 and as a boy showed talent for the violin.
		Spohr's importance for his contemporaries and what captured them and enraptured them was his richness of harmony and command of modulation and chromaticism.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /societies/spohr.html (886 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He was born in Brunswick in 1784 and established himself as a leading virtuoso violinist and as a composer.
		Spohr wrote fifteen violin concertos, the first completed in 1803 and the last in 1844.
		Spohr wrote some three dozen string quartets, an octet, four double string quartets and seven quintets, in addition to a number of violin duos of principal interest to teachers.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/spohr.html (303 words)

	Spohr, Arnold Theodore
		Interim director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 1957, Spohr was officially appointed artistic director in 1958.
		Spohr's concern for the training of dancers led him in 1970 to establish a professional division of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School under the leadership of David MORONI which, with the emergence of such dancers as Evelyn HART and David PEREGRINE, enabled the company to successfully stage an increasing number of evening-length classic ballets.
		Among Spohr's honours are the ORDER OF CANADA (1970), the MOLSON PRIZE (1970), the Dance Magazine Award (1982), the Diplôme d'honneur of the Canadian Conference of the Arts (1983), the ROYAL BANK AWARD FOR CANADIAN ACHIEVEMENT (1987), the Governor General's Performing Arts Award (1998) and Companion of the Order of Canada (2004).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007620 (371 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		He was born in Brunswick in 1784 and established himself as a leading virtuoso violinist and as a composer.
		Spohr wrote fifteen violin concertos, the first completed in 1803 and the last in 1844.
		Spohr wrote some three dozen string quartets, an octet, four double string quartets and seven quintets, in addition to a number of violin duos of principal interest to teachers.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/spohr.html (303 words)

	Spohr, Arnold Theodore
		Under Spohr the company undertook many successful domestic and foreign tours, becoming noted for its accessibility, exuberance and willingness to appear in smaller communities and on stages large and small.
		Spohr's concern for the training of dancers led him in 1970 to establish a professional division of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School under the leadership of David MORONI which, with the emergence of such dancers as Evelyn HART and David PEREGRINE, enabled the company to successfully stage an increasing number of evening-length classic ballets.
		Among Spohr's honours are the ORDER OF CANADA (1970), the MOLSON PRIZE (1970), the Dance Magazine Award (1982), the Diplôme d'honneur of the Canadian Conference of the Arts (1983), the ROYAL BANK AWARD FOR CANADIAN ACHIEVEMENT (1987), the Governor General's Performing Arts Award (1998) and Companion of the Order of Canada (2004).
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007620 (361 words)

	Spohr: Clarinet Concertos
		Louis Spohr was one of the most significant personalities in German music in the first half of the nineteenth century, equally outstanding as a composer, violinist, conductor, teacher and organizer who was considered a leading pioneer of early Romanticism.
		Spohr, who was born in Brunswick on 5 April 1784 and died in Kassel on 22 October 1859, was a twenty-year-old violin virtuoso when he shot to fame after a sensational concert in Leipzig on 10 December 1804.
		Accordingly, Spohr got to work during the spring and the Concerto in E flat major was first performed by Hermstedt at Frankenhausen on 22 July 1810.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/67509.asp (664 words)

	Classical Net Review - Spohr - String Quintets, Vol. 1
		Spohr was the foremost German violin virtuoso of his time.
		Ignaz Franz von Mosel lambasted Spohr's first String Quintet for the"eternal re-chewing of the theme (of the first movement) in every voice and key…" Others criticized his chamber works for the excessive brilliance of the writing for the first violin - written for Spohr himself to play.
		Her unimaginative playing does nothing whatsoever to relieve the monotony of Spohr's endless cascade of notes from the first violin, and her instrument's whining quickly becomes tiresome.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/m/mpl23597a.html (357 words)

	Encyclopedia: Louis Spohr
		Louis Spohr as a young man: a self-portrait The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
		Louis Spohr This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		A rehearsal letter is a boldface letter of the alphabet in an orchestral score, and its corresponding parts, that provides a convenient spot from which to resume rehearsal after a break.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Louis-Spohr (1620 words)

	Louis Spohr - Complete String Quintets Vol. 1 [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- Jun2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Spohr’s first two Quintets were written whilst he was orchestral director at the Theater an der Wien from 1813-15.
		He asked Spohr to compose chamber music, thirty ducats for a quartet, thirty-five for a quintet, with Tost to retain the manuscript and to be performed only with Tost in attendance.
		In its aversion to easy effects or to the innovative Spohr might be seen as a retrogressive composer but, as the Op 33 No 2 Quintet shows, there is plenty of room for a craftsman of lyric abundance in the chamber literature.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Jun02/Louis_SPOHR.htm (521 words)

	Spohr Gardens
		Stroll the winding grassy paths while you observe the many nautical treasures and other artifacts collected by Charles Spohr in his lifetime.
		Margaret and Charles D. Spohr began creating this wondrous setting around their home in the 1950s and welcomed the ever-growing number of visitors who had heard of its beauty.
		Charles Spohr died in 1997; his wife died in 2001, at which time the gardens passed to the Spohr Charitable Trust which supports the garden's upkeep.
	www.spohrgardens.org (180 words)

	Louis SPOHR - String Quintets [RH]: Classical CD Reviews- Sept 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		She had shared his early successes and the two of them had been a notable harp and violin duo (Spohr wrote a number of duos for them to play and these have also been released on Naxos).
		Encouraged by her, he wrote a number of chamber pieces with piano parts so that this string quintet is the only work for strings alone that Spohr wrote in the first 9 years of his new marriage (previously he had regularly produced sets of chamber music for strings).
		June 1838 also saw the tragic death at the age of 19 of Spohr’s youngest daughter, Therese, who was reputed to be an exact likeness of her late mother.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Oct03/Spohr_Quintets_hugill.htm (873 words)

	Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Spohr spent the years 1812 to 1815 in Vienna as musical director of the Theater an der Wien.
		Spohr composed a group of chamber works in these years on commission from the businessman Johann Tost, who had once played violin in Haydn’s orchestra at Esterhaza.
		Spohr’s version of the theme is already somewhat altered from the original, and his variations have nothing to do with Handel’s.
	www.libertynet.org /pce/notesm02.html (1303 words)

	Friends of Spohr Gardens
		Spohr, an engineer, was employed by the town of Falmouth.
		Spohr also collected anchors and some bells from large ships, and these are all on display in the Gardens.
		The Gardens are now in the hands of the Spohr Gardens Trust, a small group of responsible people who are charged with maintaining the popularity of the private site and overseeing their continuity, as well as dispersement of remaining funds.
	www.spohrgardens.org /friends.html (535 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 83026206 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Published in Spohr's 200th anniversary year, this book is the first to deal at length with both the life and the works of a composer who exerted a strong influence on the development of nineteenth-century music.
		The chronological account of Spohr's life unfolds in parallel with the description of his musical output; a final chapter considers the decline of his reputation after his death.
		And, since so little of Spohr's very substantial output is available in modern editions and is seldom performed, the book will also prove useful to practical musicians in search of worthwhile music for performance.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam031/83026206.html (235 words)

	Gramophone - Gramofile - The world's best classical music magazine
		Spohr's various works for mixed chamber ensemble have found admirable modern interpreters in the Nash Ensemble.
		It is not only that their make-up, with a number of distinguished wind players and the excellent Ian Brown working with a string ensemble, is well-disposed to the different instrumental groupings which Spohr liked: they seem to have an affinity with his vein of elegant, undemanding, graceful music-making, the nineteenth-century equivalent of the eighteenth-century serenade.
		The Nonet, Spohr's most popular chamber work, receives from the Consortium Classicum (Orfeo/Harmonia Mundi) a performance that I thought probed a little deeper than that by the Nash, suggesting a vein of sadness in Spohr's famous chromaticisms and in his eloquent melodies.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /gramofilereview.asp?reviewID=8903071 (169 words)

	Record box
		My life's brief encounters with Luis Spohr have left me with the feeling of an indulgent period of dreaming in a comfortable armchair cocooned in an atmosphere providing anything that might render us mentally drugged and sanitized.
		Much depends on an individual's expectation of music -- a soothing drug for a journey through an experience that is memorable for sheer physical impact, or an overwhelming presence of something magisterial.
		Spohr first came into my experience years ago with one of those po-faced cantatas like The Last Judgement.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2002/05/spohr.htm (222 words)

	E336- Emma Spohr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Emma was a child of Principle Musician Andrew Spohr.
		The old army was very big on bands and Andrew Spohr would have had a high place in one with his NCO rank, which was superior to that of a sergeant.
		In another tragedy for the Spohr family, son Ferdinand (E301) was to die in 1873 and was also interred in the Angel Island Post Cemetery.
	www.eclectichistorian.net /AI_Cemetery/E336.html (139 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ludwig Spohr (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ludwig Spohr, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		A mannered chromaticism, derived from Mozart, anticipated that of Wagner, whose works Spohr was one of the first to champion.
		As a violinist, Spohr developed a style which, through his teaching and his famous Violinschule (1831), became the basis for the German school of violin playing.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Spohr-Lu.html (259 words)

	Spohr Violin Concertos
		Spohr wrote over a dozen violin concertos almost all of them are quite substantial in length, and very demending to play, who are the modern violinists who have recorded these works, or are there any more historical recordings of these concertos
		I have the complete recorded Spohr Violin Concerti performed by Ulf Hoelscher on the CPO label.
		I will be performing the Spohr 8th concerto on June 26, at 3PM in Zipper Hall of the Colburn School with the Olympia Philharmonic.
	www.violinist.com /discussion/response.cfm?ID=6737 (423 words)

	FirstMaestro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At this point one could turn to a source by an important contemporary of Beethoven.
		Spohr is a vitally important source: he was a close associate of Beethoven and participated in many first performances of Beethoven's works.
		is emphasised later: Spohr uses staccato dots as we know them today a) to separate notes in the same bow (portato), and b) to indicate spiccato, or "staccato leggiero" as he calls it.
	www.firstmaestro.com /research/page2.html (209 words)

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