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6 unusual facts about Louis Spohr


Johann Simon Hermstedt

All four of Louis Spohr's clarinet concertos and several of his other clarinet works, as well as Carl Maria von Weber's Grand duo concertant, were written with Hermstedt's skills in mind and were dedicated to him.

Louis Spohr

Better known today, however, are the four clarinet concertos, all written for the virtuoso Johann Simon Hermstedt, which have established a secure place in clarinettists' repertoire.

Der Alchymist (WoO 57) Bernd Weikl, Moran Abouloff, Jörg Dürmüller, Jan Zinkler, Susanna Pütters, Staatsorchester Braunschweig, Christian Fröhlich.

Geoffrey Moull conducting the Bielefelder Philharmonie, Chorus of the Bielefeld opera house.

Zemire und Azor (WoO 52) "The Beauty and the Beast" - A production with singers of the Manhattan School of Music, New York, Christopher Larkin conducting.

Spohr

Louis Spohr (1784–1859), German composer, violinist, and conductor


Eiji Oue

Oue's commercial recordings include Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Louis Spohr’s Violin Concerto No. 8 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hilary Hahn for Deutsche Grammophon.

Lavinia Meijer

In 2011, Lavinia released a Super Audio CD album, produced by Channel Classics Records, entitled, "Fantasies and Impromptus" with works from, among others, Louis Spohr, Gabriel Fauré, Gabriel Pierné, Camille Saint-Saëns.


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Joseph Gregor

After completion of Danae's score, Strauss was planning in 1940, at the suggestion of Heinz Drewes and Hans Joachim Moser, to collaborate with Gregor to rework the libretto of the opera Jessonda (music: Louis Spohr, libretto: Edward Henry Go ).