Violinschule ... mit erlaeuternden Kupfertafeln. Original Ausgabe ... Preis fl. 15._C.M. / Rthlr. 10._

  • Wien: Tobias Haslinger [PN T.H. 6050.], 1833
By SPOHR, Louis 1784-1859
Wien: Tobias Haslinger [PN T.H. 6050.], 1833. Folio. Full mid-blue paper with original teal blue upper wrapper with titling within decorative border laid down to upper board printed, paper title label to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 3ff. (3 full-page engraved plates of the violin and bow and playing positions), 250 pp. Engraved.

With bust-length lithographed frontispiece portrait by Kriehuber printed by L. Hofelich.

Former owner's signature ("Arthur Krone") in ink to verso of frontispiece.

With bookplate of noted music collector David Wolman to free front endpaper.

Original wrapper somewhat worn and soiled. Slightly worn and soiled; occasional foxing; titling to upper margin of plate 3 slightly cropped. Re-issue of the first edition. Gothel WoO45, p. 316.

A noted German composer, violinist, and conductor, [Spohr's] "violin method, completed in 1831, documents his importance as a teacher. Numerous violinists from all over the world came to him for instruction, the most famous being Hubert Ries, Ferdinand David and Spohr's grandson August Wilhelmj." The New Grove Vol. 18, p. 11.

It became "one of the most respected and widely used violin methods of the century. ...

Regarded by many contemporaries as worthy of a place beside Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in the pantheon of the greatest composers, [Spohr] has, together with Gluck and Cherubini, been allotted a considerably lower status by posterity. Mozart's Figaro and Wagner's Tristan were both composed during Spohr's lifetime; his own work looks, Janus-like, towards both the formalism and clarity of the Classical tradition, and the structural and harmonic experimentation associated with 19th-century Romanticism." Clive Brown in Grove Music Online.

Details

Title

Violinschule ... mit erlaeuternden Kupfertafeln. Original Ausgabe ... Preis fl. 15._C.M. / Rthlr. 10._

Author

SPOHR, Louis 1784-1859

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Tobias Haslinger [PN T.H. 6050.]: Wien

Date

1833


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