Spohr was consumed by a burning desire to behold Napoleon and the surrounding princes, and went to Erfurt.
As an executant Spohr stands among the greatest of all time.
Spohr repeats himself perhaps more frequently than any other composer.
From Spohr has grown up a school of Violin-playing of a very distinctive character.
In the evening we went to the theatre—a shabby, ugly building—and heard Spohr's Jessonda.
