Signed Sheets of Music: Instrumental Composer Spohr - Composed Music Masterpiece, Cornu Secondo, Violine-Andante maestoro, handmade Paper - 1813

Rare signed sheet music manuscript
Handwritten, composed music piece by Spohr
battleship paper

1 double sheet = 4 pages
Dimensions double sheet: 41.5 cm x 34.5 cm

Violin
Andante maestoso
Andante Puotto
Second horn in F major


Handwritten sheet music with black ink on handmade paper.


Inventor of the baton and chin rest.
Nonet in F major for tenor, choir, violin, and horn, op. 31


Spohr was a German composer, conductor, vocal pedagogue, organizer of music festivals, and an internationally renowned violinist.
Along with the Italian Niccolò Paganini, he is considered one of the greatest violinists of his time.
He was already a celebrity during his lifetime and was considered, after the death of Carl Maria von Weber (1826) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1827), until the breakthrough of the works of Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Robert Schumann in the mid-1840s, as the most important living German composer.

In 1813, he responded to a call as concertmaster of the Theater an der Wien. There, he met Beethoven several times, who also visited him and his family at home. He described these memorable encounters in his autobiography.
Due to disagreements with the director of the theater, Count Ferdinand von Pálffy, he resigned from this position after only two years and once again embarked on art journeys. These took him through Switzerland, Italy, and the Netherlands, leading to his first personal encounter with Niccolò Paganini. In the winter of 1817, he took over the position of kapellmeister at the theater in Frankfurt am Main and directed the orchestra of the Frankfurt Museum Society. Here, he premiered his opera Faust in 1818 and Zemire and Azor in 1819, both of which received enthusiastic applause. Nevertheless, in September of that year, he left Frankfurt and once again traveled on art journeys to Belgium and Paris. In 1820, he traveled to London—through the mediation of Ferdinand Ries.

Even the loss of his wife (1834), for whom he found no truly equal substitute in a second marriage (since 1836) with the pianist Marianne Pfeiffer (1807–1892), could not diminish his diligence and sense of duty, just as the petty harassment he later had to endure from his prince, especially after the revolutionary year 1848, did not, even though he had been distinguished the year before by his appointment as General Music Director. In 1835, he joined the Art Association for Kurhessen.
He was also a volunteer president of the 'German National Association for Music and Its Science,' founded in 1839 in Stuttgart by Gustav Schilling.

In 1857, against his wishes and with partial withdrawal of his salary, he was pensioned off, but until his death on October 22, 1859, he remained a figure of general admiration both as a person and as an artist.