In his long life, Louis Spohr found himself to be a contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and Richard Wagner, yet in spite of living in the turbulent first half-century of the Romantic era, he continued to emulate the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and stayed rather close to the practices and expressions of the late Classical era. To be sure, there are aspects of Spohr's music that suggest the increasing emotionalism and drama of Romanticism, as in the Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 (1828), ...
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In his long life, Louis Spohr found himself to be a contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and Richard Wagner, yet in spite of living in the turbulent first half-century of the Romantic era, he continued to emulate the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and stayed rather close to the practices and expressions of the late Classical era. To be sure, there are aspects of Spohr's music that suggest the increasing emotionalism and drama of Romanticism, as in the Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 (1828), where the music often resembles the evocative scene painting of Felix Mendelssohn or Carl Maria von Weber, and in the Symphony No. 6 in G major, "Historical Symphony," Op. 116 (1839), where inflated Romanticism is overtly lampooned in the Finale. Yet at heart, Spohr observes the conventional forms and developmental ideas initiated by Franz Joseph Haydn and perfected by Mozart, so there is no escaping the feeling that his heart belonged in the 18th century, even as his ears were...
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