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Apr 5, 2021 · The “Louis Spohr – Gedenk- und Forschungsstätte – Museum der Geschichte des Violinspiels” of the “Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft” (founded in 1908) exhibits a rare collection of Spohr memorabilia, although in 1934 great parts of the collection were destroyed by order of the mayor of Kassel.
Feb 13, 2021 · Conducting as we know it really developed at the start of the 19th century and Spohr was one of its first exponents. Spohr also developed an interest in liberal politics and joined the Freemasons in Gotha. On a personal level, he married in 1806. His wife was Dorothea Scheidler (known as Dorette).
Marianne Pfeiffer was a gifted amateur pianist. Read about her love story with composer Louis Spohr and how it inspired a series of chamber music.
Spohr self-portrait. Louis Spohr ([ˈluːi ˈʃpo:ɐ], 5 April 1784 – 22 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, [1] later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig was a German composer, violinist and conductor.
Apr 16, 2024 · There he met his future wife, a harpist and singer named Dorette Scheidler. Their marriage seems to have been happy; initially they formed a musical duo of equals, with Spohr writing works for violin and harp for them to perform together, though in later years Scheidler hung up her instrument in order to raise the couple’s children.
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. In Kassel on 3 January 1836, he married his second wife, the 29-year-old Marianne Pfeiffer. She survived him by many years, living until 1892.
1. Dorette Scheidler,baptized Dorothea Henriette, married name: Spohr, born Dec. 12, 1787 in Gotha, died Nov. 20, 1834 in Kassel, harpist and pianist. As the daughter of the Gotha Court musician Johann David Scheidler (1748–1802) and his wife, the Court singer Susanne Scheidler, she received a comprehensive education.
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