I hadn’t until I was told about him by a patient to whom I was talking while doing my weekly volunteering at the Older Persons’ Unit of St Thomas Hospital in central London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the entry<\/a> in Wikipedia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Louis Spohr<\/strong>, 5 April 1784 \u2013 22 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr<\/strong>, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig<\/strong>, was a German composer<\/a>, violinist<\/a>and conductor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Highly regarded during his lifetime,[2]<\/a><\/sup> Spohr composed ten symphonies<\/a>, ten operas<\/a>, eighteen violin<\/a> concerti, four clarinet<\/a> concerti, four oratorios<\/a>, and various works for small ensemble, chamber music, and art songs. Spohr invented the violin chinrest<\/a> and the orchestral rehearsal mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His output spans the transition<\/a> between Classical<\/a> and Romantic music<\/a>, but fell into obscurity following his death, when his music was rarely heard. The late twentieth century saw a modest revival of interest in his oeuvre<\/a>, primarily in Europe, but his reputation has never been restored to that during his lifetime.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hadn’t until I was told about him by a patient to whom I was talking while doing my weekly volunteering at the Older Persons’ Unit of St Thomas Hospital in central London. According to the entry in Wikipedia: “Louis Spohr, 5 April 1784 \u2013 22 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30035,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033\/revisions\/30035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n