1409482741175: My parents were musical: my father played the flut... 1409483074570: About the year 1790 or 91 a French emigrant, named... 1409483677188: From this time, the young Kammermusicus was in ful... 1409516305191: Neither did I fail to be present at all the other ... 1409516507366: The presence of two foreign violinists who at this... 1409516700021: In Hamburgh, it was a Miss Lütgens, the daughter o... 1409517087529: [Quoted by the author from his diary]
“May 5. ... 1409517436454: [Quoted by the author from his diary:]
“Fräulei... 1409517634090: My diary mentions the following with regard to Her... 1409517970596: 1409518282588: While practising these duets with Eck, I became fi... 1409518537308: Almost everytime that an opera was given, I went ... 1409518965514: Herr Eck’s concert on October 16. at the Theatre, ... 1409519299876: Before Herr Eck gave his first concert, the family... 1409519591990: In the Concert also, which the brothers gave, the ... 1409520154960: In the Governor’s house I heard a Violinist of the... 1409521780197: “We heard there, also, some Russian military singe... 1409522000523: [Quoted from Spohr's diary:]
“The concert went... 1409522167384: In the evening, I sometimes accompanied Clementi t... 1409522444799: 1409522629623: On the 23rd May, we met Tietz at the weekly evenin... 1409522824545: Herr Tietz now produced a concerto of his own comp... 1409523038092: 1409523253792: I heard another celebrated violinist, Herr Bärwald... 1409523562552: I also wrote my opinion of Fodor, the then celebra... 1409578322304: During Lent, the Greek church allowing no theatric... 1409578762295: In the first concert, the orchestra consisted of t... 1409579076488: The Italian singers appeared in the second concert... 1409579304120: … a performance of Haydn’s “Seasons” which was giv... 1409579573048: As my new friend (M. Leveque) now visited me often... 1409579779219: I have mentioned the Imperial hornband, each membe... 1409580018636: [Quoted from the author's diary:]
“This evenin... 1409662020748: The Emperor rode a magnificent horse richly capari... 1409662326860: I now burned with the desire, to appear with this ... 1409662587955: At that time also, at the wish of the Violoncellis... 1409662841305: At a Musical party at the house of the Secretary t... 1409671766878: 1409672104992: I yet remember also the following incident: Among ... 1409672353634: Among the students I made the acquaintance of some... 1413462709280: The day after I saw and heard Rosa Alberghi for th... 1413463009076: Meanwhile I delivered my letters of recommendation... 1413463514380: Being now solicited to play something myself, I th... 1413463746690: I still remember an other Music-party – it was at ... 1413463932572: In the introductory visits I made to the members o... 1413464181897: [Dorette’s] brilliant execution both on the harp a... 1413757792906: Dorette, forcibly attracted by these new Compositi... 1413757975195: Great as at first was my satisfaction with the new... 1413758199949: At our Public Concert, we were supported by the me... 1414446590988: In Stuttgard I also first made the acquaintance of... 1414446878392: I first wrote a Potpourri for the violin with orch... 1414447109827: As I had written all manner of new things after I ... 1414447312073: 1414447539397: In the winter of 1808 – 1809, I arranged some Subs... 1414447693819: The third part of this Concerto [Spohr’s violin co... 1414447914064: At this time, Quartetts were much played in Hambur... 1416178115703: Berhard Romberg, also, constantly smokes while pla... 1416178346135: […] I had also written for the Musical Festival at... 1416178576683: At length after much entreaty, I obtained Schröder... 1416178842158: Nevertheless, on the evening of the representation... 1416179028966: The Altona dilettanti-Orchestra, who were to serve... 1416179202322: Hermstedt, now followed with a difficult compositi... 1416179431018: 1416179614658: One of the Solo-singers, alone, who sang the part ... 1416179782097: Of the performance of the Oratorio I alone remembe... 1416180072779: By the advice of some kind friends I relinquished ... 1416180292575: A fortnight after my first appearance, Rode’s Conc... 1416180624251: In the frequent opportunities of hearing Rode I be... 1416180986689: [Beethoven’s] friends availed themselves of this f... 1416181142868: The new compositions of Beethoven pleased extremel... 1416181267054: 1416181383740: Up to this period, there was no visible falling of... 1416181546800: As at the time I made Beethoven’s acquaintance, he... 1416181789152: Others also besides me, gave music parties to the ... 1416182067573: Among the foreign artists who came to Vienna befor... 1416182348846: 1416182580764: 1416182779930: Pixis, was not so fortunate with his opera, the “Z... 1416183098164: Our first resting place was at Brünn, where we gav... 1424650436729: 1426870208047: In August 1828, my father took me to Cassel, a dri... 1426870645012: [Louis Spohr] insisted upon my giving a concert in... | 