TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN. COPYRIGHT EDITION. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. CASSELL AND GŒTTINGEN: GEORGE H. WIGAND. 1865....

In publishing an English translation of the unadorned yet highly interesting Autobiography of the celebrated Violinist and great Composer Louis Spohr , we consider we are but satisfying a natural desire on the part of his many admirers in this country to become more intimately acquainted with both the public and private life of this great musical genius—this noble, manly character, in whom were combined in so high a degree the qualities of the true artist with those of the really great-minded an

[1] The house is still standing, and, as Number 7, forms the corner of the Aegydian churchyard in Monk street. For several years it has been given up to the Military musical institution, since the parish was abolished during the Westphalian times. [2] Musician in the Ducal Orchestra, or Court Musician. [3] Er , or he, used in this mode of address, is a contemptuous style of expression in the German language, which has its equivalent only in the English word fellow , used in a rude sense. [4] It