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The Musical Journeys of Louis Spohr

出版	University of Oklahoma Press, 1961
主題	Music / History & CriticismMusic / Instruction & Study / General
ISBN	06081083329780608108339
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rzhSAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋One of the great figures in the evolution of European music and the greatest German violinist of his time (1784-1859), Louis Spohr has been largely forgotten by the music world. Until his nine symphonies were eclipsed by those of Schubert and Brahms, they were held to be the best after Beethoven's. This volume concentrates upon the journeys Spohr took as a young virtuoso, composer, and conductor to Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, England, and France between 1800 and 1820, not forgetting his travels in Germany itself. Much of the account consists of quotations from diaries which Spohr kept during his trips. In a period of transition, musically as well as sociologically, the record of the journeys offers an extraordinarily honest and instructive picture of musical life in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Musical domination on the continent had been shifting slowly from Italy to Germany throughout the preceding century, and on Spohr's journeys we encounter Germans, where formerly one would have met only Italians, moving out to Russia, Italy, France, and England, bearing with them the gospel of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. This was the day of the virtuoso, and throughout the pages of the diaries, we find Spohr demanding that his profession be treated with respect. If he was conspicuously aware of himself as the representative of an honorable profession, he was equally aware of himself as a German. With the revival of interest in early romanticism, this first modern book on Spohr should be of great interest to all music lovers.