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Louis Spohr Autobiography

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From the preface: "Spohr was a man devoted to his art, and although far from wealthy, often sacrificed his time—which to him, as to most of us, was money—in giving gratuitous instruction to young men of ability too poor to pay for lessons; and not unfrequently has he unhesitatingly dismissed some rich, well-paying, but dull scholar to make way for a poor but talented pupil ...more
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Published June 16th 2014 by Project Gutenberg (first published 1865)

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Carol Spears
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 ...more
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Lebenserinnerungen Clarinet Concerto No. 3: Part(s) Concerto No. 9 (D Minor) for Violin and Piano, Op. 55 Louis Spohr's Celebrated Violin School. Translated from the Original by John Bishop Louis Spohr's Autobiography, Tr. from the German. Copyright Ed

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