SPOHR, Louis

Spohr was a composer of great originality and refinement, and his works are now enjoying a large amount of popularity. As a violinist he was one of the greatest who ever lived, and his Violin School is the standard instruction book everywhere. His oratorios and operas are still in use, but none of them are powerful works, though they all bear the impress of the composer’s individuality, and no less so of his mannered and self-repeating style. Probably his...