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 PREFACE
Spohr composed the Sechs deutsche Lieder (Six German
Songs), Op. 103, in 1837.1 From about 1809, a few years
after taking up the Post of Konzertmeister in Gotha, he
constantly returned to the problem of the song with
piano accompaniment (he composed roughly 90 songs
in all). It is true that the form of the Lied was not
Spohr's principal interest, master of the symphony,
opera and chamber music as he was. But the same
preference for unusual combinations, the delight in
experiment, that is found in such instrumental pieces
as the Septet, Octet, Nonet and the Symphony for Two
Orchestras, is also discernible in the songs, and repeat-
edly gives rise to new ventures: the songs of Op. 101
(1836) have piano duet accompaniment, the six bari-
tone songs of Op. 154 (1856) piano and violin, Goethe's
Erlkönig calls for an accompaniment of two violins and
piano, while the present songs demand an obbligato
clarinet. And a piece that may not go unmentioned is
the formally unique Sonatina for piano and voice,
Op. 138 (1848), entitled An Sie am Clavier.
In his autobiography/ Spohr has the following to
say about the present group of songs: "Shortly after-
wards I received a letter from Hermstedt in which,
on the instructions of Princess Sondershausen, he in-
vited me to write for the latter some songs for so-
prano voice with piano and clarinet accompaniment.
Since this work very much appealed to me, I com-
posed in the course of a few weeks six songs in this
genre (Op. 103, Leipzig, Breitkopf & H.), which I ded-
icated to the Princess at her express wish, thereupon
receiving from her the gift of a valuable ring." Johann
Simon Hermstedt (1778-1846),3 one of the most im-
portant clarinettists of his day, had come to know and
admire Spohr in Gotha in 1808/9. He appeared in one
1 Cf. H. M. Schletterer, Ludwig Spohr, Leipzig. 1881. The model
for the present text was the first edition, published in the same
year by Breitkopf & Härtel (Schletterer, op. cit., p. XX).
2 Selbstbiographie, Cassel & Göttingen, 1861 (unaltered reprint,
Cassel & Basel 1955), II, 222.
3 For biographical information on Hermstedt cf. Heinz Becker's
article in: Die Musik in Geschichte lind Gegenwart, VI, 240-42.
of the subscription concerts mounted by Spohr in aid
of the court orchestra, and enjoyed a well deserved
success. For. Spohr the association with this excellent
musician, who was in the service of Prince Günther
Friedrich Carl II of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, was
a fruitful one: he wrote for him the clarinet concertos
Op. 26 (in C minor)" and Op. 57 (in E flat), and also a
third, in F minor.
Surveying Spohr's songs as a whole, the present set
in particular shows how, having embarked so auspi-
ciously on the composition of Lieder as a young man
with the Six German Songs, Op. 25 (1809), dedicated
to Frau von Heigendorf, née Jagemann, he was gradu-
ally led away from the true goal into all sorts of tor-
tuous byways. Spohr's place in musical history today
is still that of the great master of Romantic instrumen-
tal music; the unjustly forgotten song composer in
him, on the other hand, still awaits comparable recog-
nition. In comparison with his instrumental music,
the songs represent the careful cultivation and imita-
tion of preexistent forms - often with strong leanings
towards the comfortable domestic atmosphere of the
middle-class drawing room. Here the clarinet is often
handled in concertante fashion - like Mozart, whom
he revered, Spohr appreciated the warm timbre of
the instrument - and in the solo part, with a truly
Romantic delight in sonority, he adds an expressive
background to the piano accompaniment. Of all his
songs with obbligato instruments, it is the present set
with clarinet, Op. 103, that have succeeded in reclaim-
ing for themselves a place in the repertoire af today.
Friedrich Otto Leinert
(translated by Edward OlIeson)
4 Bärenreiter miniature score 23 (1957).
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