Louis Spohr's Autobiography, Tr. From the German. Copyright Ed

by Louis Spohr

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712 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1865

About the author

Louis Spohr, baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor.

Reviews

[Carol Spears · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is almost 700 pages long (in print). About 250 to 300 of those pages were pretty great but the other 400 to 450 pages were just terrible. Not terrible, but redundant -- like looking at photographs of brides maids. You know that each photograph is of a different set of girls at a completely different ceremony, yet they are all the same with just different faces and dress colors. Much of this book is like that with lists of music played and musicians who played with him and the fact that he did not like the skill of a lot of the musicians he listened to.

There was some very interesting stuff. He had a few outdoor music festivals where local amateurs were invited to come play and the description of this, in particular the first one, was very cool. Also, he climbed Mount Vesuvius on one of his numerous vacations and crossed over molten ground where there was just a shell of recently dried rock to walk upon.

Gosh it was long in between the interesting parts though....

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of fascinating anecdotes of life in 19th-Century Germany, and frustratingly vague recollections of Spohr's musical colleagues. Great fun to read.