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Musical notes. I. The great composers. II. Violinists and the violin. III. The violin and its history, 1869
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1former especially ranks among the finest examples of the art in that style. It is hardly necessary to speak here of Spohr's violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments. Most of them would do credit to any composer for his own instrument, and some of them are really striking compositions. One in particular, familiarly known as the 'Dramatic Concerto,' written in imitation of an operatic scena, is quite calculated to stamp him as a composer of the highest order. The recitative, ushered in by an effective orchestral prelude, is very characteristic. Then follows an air full of pathos, and diversified in the most charming manner. The concerto then winds up with an elaborate bravura movement, and before the close, a written cadenza is introduced in keeping with the whole. Though intended as a show piece for the violin, there are about it a completeness and an originality which will win for it a place where nearly all compositions of a like character are forgotten. As Spohr advanced in years he neglected to play in public, so that I have scarcely ever heard him
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