Spohr's first musical encouragement came from his parents: his mother was a gifted singer and pianist, and his father played the flute.

Spohr's longest post, from 1822 until his death in Kassel, was as the director of music at the court of Kassel, a position offered him on the suggestion of Carl Maria von Weber.

In 1851 the elector refused to sign the permit for Spohr's two months ' leave of absence, to which he was entitled under his contract, and when the musician departed without the permit, a portion of his salary was deducted.

Though obscure today, Spohr's operas Faust ( 1816 ), Zemire und Azor ( 1819 ) and Jessonda ( 1823 ) remained in the popular repertoire through the 19th century and well into the 20th when Jessonda was banned by the Nazis because it depicted a European hero in love with an Indian princess.

A concert in Leipzig in December 1804 brought the influential music critic Friedrich Rochlitz " to his knees ," not only because of Spohr's playing but also because of his compositions.

All four of Louis Spohr's clarinet concertos and several of his other clarinet works, as well as Carl Maria von Weber's Grand duo concertant, were written with Hermstedt's skills in mind and were dedicated to him.

Spohr's first notable compositions, including his Violin Concerto No. 1, date from this time.

Among Spohr's chamber music is a series of no fewer than 36 string quartets, as well as four double quartets for two string quartets.

According to Rey M. Longyear, Spohr's best works were hailed by many of his contemporaries as quintessentially Romantic and inherited by Mendelssohn.

* Ludwig Spohr's Symphony No. 3, op.

He joined the orchestra of Kassel in 1822 under Spohr's direction.

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138 " Vocalise " is absolutely wrong: Louis Spohr's op.

* Louis Spohr's String Quartet No. 14

Hesiod's vocabulary also includes quite a lot of formulaic phrases that are not found in Homer, which indicates that he may have been writing within a different tradition.

Setzer states that the passage indicates that Josephus, a Jewish historian writing towards the end of the first century, could use a neutral tone towards Christians, with some tones of sympathy, implying that they may be worthy of Roman protection.

Inspection with an infrared camera indicates other characters suggesting that it was used for writing practice

# Paul presumably made the third visit after writing 2 Corinthians, because Acts 20: 2-3 indicates he spent 3 months in Greece.

While in Egypt and Mesopotamia, writing developed before 3000 BC, writing was not really used in Jordan, Canaan and Syria until some thousand years later, even though archeological evidence indicates that the Jordanians were in fact trading with Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Coptic provides the clearest indication of Later Egyptian phonology thanks to its writing system, which fully indicates vowel sounds and occasionally stress pattern.

Readability indicates the ease of understanding or comprehension due to the style of writing.

According to Horowitz, the quality of the writing indicates that this was a royal inscription, apparently a letter from the a king of Jerusalem to the pharaoh in Egypt.

Thus, Strauss agrees with the Socrates of the Phaedrus, where the Greek indicates that, insofar as writing does not respond when questioned, good writing provokes questions in the reader — questions that orient the reader towards an understanding of problems the author thought about with utmost seriousness.

When the term appears in writing, it usually indicates the author's disapproval of the group's perceived excessive power in society.

However, as his political writing and some of his literature indicates, he did not always hold Newfoundland culture, particularly that of the ' outports ' or fishing villages, in high regard.

1 Corinthians 1: 12 further indicates that Peter was known in Corinth before the writing of 1 Corinthians, for it assumes that they were familiar with Cephas / Peter.

This indicates that existence and death of Jesus was part of Christian belief a few years after his death and over a decade before the writing of the Pauline epistles.

It is, therefore, thought most likely that the poet was a native of east Cheshire or west Staffordshire and was writing in the latter part of the 14th century, and internal evidence indicates that all four works were probably written by the same author.

Another tradition indicates that spodomancy may also be practiced by writing a question or message on a piece of paper and then burning it.

In Germanic countries, the saint indicates a clock, whereas in the rest of the world ( especially in recent representations ) he has a cross with the writing " hodie " (" today ") in his hand.

However, the book also indicates that he is dyslexic and has great difficulty both in writing letters and reading books ( he is shown reading the works of Karl Marx slowly ).

Some writing found indicates the settlement is closely connected to the known Roman colony in modern day Zenica, away.

Lessing's lead, Strauss indicates that medieval political philosophers, no less than their ancient counterparts, in writing, carefully adapted their wording to the dominant moral views of their time, lest their writings be condemned as heretical or unjust, not by " the many " ( who did not read ), but by those " few " whom the many regarded as the most righteous guardians of morality: precisely those few righteous personalities would be most inclined to persecute or ostracize anyone who is in the business of exposing the noble or great lie upon which stands or falls the authority of the few over the many.

In the modern Slavic Cyrillic writing systems ( all East Slavic plus Bulgarian and Church Slavic ), it does not represent an individual sound, but rather indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant.

The writing on this Prague street sign indicates it is in the Vinohrady cadastral area and in the " old " district Prague 3.

The presence of an asterisk () prepended to the file type in a directory listing ( for example, ) indicates that the file was not properly closed after writing.

In 1900 he started to suffer from Bright's disease and returned to writing piano music.

The transfer of guitar idioms into piano writing ".

Modernist styles of music have also appealed to composers writing for the modern grand piano, including John Cage and Philip Glass.

He refused to take traditional piano lessons, and throughout his career did not have substantial knowledge of reading or writing musical notation.

A few years later he first likened painting to composing music in the manner for which he would become noted, writing, " Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.

His concertos No. 1 and No. 2 left a deep impression on the style of piano concerto writing, influencing Rubinstein, and especially Tchaikovsky, whose first piano concerto's rich chordal opening is justly famous.

In addition to acting, Moore continued to work as a composer and pianist, writing scores for a number of films and giving piano concerts, which were highlighted by his popular parodies of classical favourites.

Some orchestrators, particularly those writing for the opera or music theatres, prefer to work from a piano vocal score up, since it is required to start rehearsing a piece long before the whole is fully completed.

He began composition at school, writing piano pieces, organ voluntaries, songs, anthems and a Symphony in C minor ( from 1892 ).

Less well-known is a piano piece known as " Vice Versa ", a musical palindrome which was not only a front-to-back palindrome, but also exploited the two staves used for writing for piano.

García Lorca did not begin a career in writing until his piano teacher died in 1916 and his first prose works such as " Nocturne ", " Ballade " and " Sonata " drew on musical forms.

Richard Lester, the director, was eventually greatly annoyed by this and lost his temper, telling McCartney to finish writing the song or he would have the piano removed.

Although a considerable pianist himself, he was undoubtedly assisted by Yvonne Loriod's formidable piano technique and ability to convey complex rhythms and rhythmic combinations ; in his piano writing from Visions de l ' Amen onwards he had her in mind.

Josh's piano playing also tends to get on Sharon's nerves while she's doing a task like homework, or writing an email to a " special someone ".

" Rubinstein was a prolific composer, writing no fewer than twenty operas ( notably The Demon, written after Lermontov's Romantic poem, and its successor The Merchant Kalashnikov ), five piano concertos, six symphonies and a large number of solo piano works along with a substantial output of works for chamber ensemble, two concertos for cello and one for violin, free-standing orchestral works and tone poems ( including one entitled Don Quixote ).

He continued writing songs and themes for films, but his only real success in his later years was " Happy Endings ", a 30-second jingle for a 1989 Abbey National advertising campaign which featured Bart playing the piano and singing to children.

Diamond was back to writing songs on an upright piano above the Birdland Club in New York City.

Harry soon proved successful playing piano and calliope and writing new tunes and incidental music for the shows.

I have been composing a good deal lately, and have called my piano pieces after the names of my favourite haunts, partly because they really came into my mind at these spots, partly because our pleasant excursions were in my mind while I was writing them.

Although respectful of the more civilized parlor songs of the day, he and his friends would often sit at a piano, writing and singing minstrel songs through the night.

In addition to writing her column, Schmich was the author of the long-lived comic strip Brenda Starr from 1985 through its final appearance in January 2011, and has worked as a professional barrelhouse and ragtime piano player.