A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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great " Violin School," a work which has received the highest favour wherever the art of violin playing is cultivated with any degree of earnestness. Three years later occurred the death of his wife, who had borne him a large family, and had been his most sympathetic and devoted companion. At the time of this calamity Spohr was at work on his great oratorio " Calvary," but he was so broken down by his bereavement, that it was several months before he could resume his labours. Of the performance of this oratorio on Good Friday, 1835, Spohr relates in his diary : " The thought that my wife did not live to listen to its first performance sensibly lessened the satisfaction I felt at this my most successful work." In 1839 this oratorio was given at the Norwich Festival, the great master being present to conduct it. After Spohr had been a widower two years he became enamoured of one of the daughters of Chief Councillor Pfeiffer, who possessed great musical skill and powers upon the pianoforte, and was twenty years the junior of her suitor. The marriage took place on January 3rd, 1836.
Shortly after his second marriage, Spohr and his young wife made a long journey, visiting the principal German cities, exciting everywhere universal admiration.
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