Louis Spohr in Gotha - between at the end of 1808 and in the beginning of 1809
from Louis Spohr's Autobiography, pages 123-124:
In the winter of 1808 – 1809, I arranged some Subscription Concerts in the town for the benefit of the Court-Orchestra. […] At one of these Concerts, Herr Hermstedt, Director of the “Harmonic-music” to Prince Sonderhausen, appeared as Clarinet player, and attracted much attention by his performance. He had come to Gotha to request me to write a Clarinet-concerto for him, for which the Prince upon the condition that Hermstedt should be put in possession of the manuscript, offered to pay a handsome gratuity. To this proposal I gladly assented, as from the immense execution, together with… more >>
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Louis Spohr, and Frederick Freedman and Longman Roberts & Green London 1865 (ed.), Louis Spohr's Autobiography, volume 1 (1969), p. 123-124. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1414447539397 accessed: 3 December, 2024
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hide composers| Performance of clarinet | performed by Johann Simon Hermstedt |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | between at the end of 1808 and in the beginning of 1809 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by tlisboa on Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:05:40 +0000
Approved on Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:12:37 +0000