A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
them. Spohr returned and for three years devoted a large share of his time to composition, during which period he wrote a number of important works for the orchestra and for the violin. In 1812 Spohr visited Vienna and gave a series of concerts. The impression he created there was so profound that he was offered the direction of the An der Wien Theatre, at a salary three times that received at Gotha. Spohr at once accepted the position which he retained until 1815, after which he spent two years concert-giving with remarkable success. On his return home he accepted the post of director of music at the Frankfort Theatre, and remained there two years.
In 1820 Spohr made his first appearance in this country at a Philharmonic Concert, when his debut was thus noticed by an eminent reviewer " He first played a concerto in the dramatic style: the composition was very clever and classed under its proper head. A quartet, in which he afterwards assisted, was so entirely calculated to display the single performer, as to injure its effect as a concerted piece. His manner is totally without pretention; his tone fine, his intonation admirable, and his execution of the most finished order." On another occasion this critic observes, " We have the traces, in Spohr's execution, of a mind continually
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