Louis Spohr
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Louis Spohr, baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor.
Spohr self-portrait
Bust of Spohr
Faust (Spohr)
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Faust is an opera by the German composer Louis Spohr. The libretto, by Joseph Karl Bernard, is based on the legend of Faust; it is not influenced by Goethe's Faust, though Faust, Part One had been pub
Louis Spohr
…terms with Beethoven; subsequently he was opera director at Frankfurt (1817–1819) where he was able to stage his own operas — the first of which, Faust, had been rejected in Vienna. Spohr's longest period of employment, from 1822 until his death, was as the director of music at the recently succeeded…
Faust at the Royal Italian Opera, from The Illustrated London News Supplement, 31 July 1852