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

Rare signed music manuscript
Handwritten composed musical piece by Spohr
Laid paper

1 double leaf = 4 pages
Dimensions of the double leaf: 41 cm x 34.5 cm

Chorus.
Allegro moderato
Violin
Andante maestoso
Andante molto
Second Horn in F major

Handwritten notes in black ink on handmade paper
left page bottom with a 2 cm tear

Inventor of the baton and chinrest
Nonet in F major for tenor, chorus, violin & horn, Op. 31

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

In 1813 he accepted 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 describes these memorable encounters in his autobiography.
Due to conflicts with the theater director, Count Ferdinand von Pálffy, he left this post after only two years and again went on artistic journeys. They took him through Switzerland, Italy, and the Netherlands and led to his first personal encounter with Niccolò Paganini. In the winter of 1817 he took the post of Kapellmeister at the Theater in Frankfurt am Main and the leadership of the orchestra of the Frankfurt Museum Society. Here in 1818 he premiered his opera Faust and in 1819 Zemire and Azor, both of which received enthusiastic applause. Nevertheless he left Frankfurt in September of that year and again went on artistic travels 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 never found a fully adequate substitute in a second marriage (since 1836) with the pianist Marianne Pfeiffer (1807–1892), could not diminish his diligence and duty-boundness, just as the petty vexations he later had to endure from his prince did not, especially after the year of the 1848 Revolution, although the previous year he had been awarded the title of General Music Director. In 1835 he joined the Kunstverein for Kurhessen.
He was also an honorary president of the German National Association for Music and Science, founded in Stuttgart by Gustav Schilling in 1839.

Pensioned in 1857 against his wishes and with partial withholding of his salary, he remained a personality of general reverence as both man and artist until his death on 22 October 1859.