The Spohr Society of the United States of America
Prof. Susan
Owen-Leinert, President
The University of Memphis
Dr. Wolfram Boder, Musicologist, Academic Consultant
129 Music Building Herkulesstr. 31
Memphis, TN 38152 D - 34119 Kassel
Email:
sownlnrt@memphis.edu
Email:
WolfBoder@t-online.de
Our Office in Germany:
Michael Leinert, Vice-President Cornelia
Krueger-Crull
PO Box 11508 Heinrich-Barth-Strasse
8
Memphis, TN 38111 D - 20146
Hamburg
Email: SpohrSociety@aol.com
Email:
corneliakrueger@gmx.de
Spohr-Society-USA@gmx.com
The
Spohr Society of the United States
was founded in January 2008 in Memphis, TN.
Grosstat_für_den Meister.pdf
Bericht über die erfolgreiche und spannende Forschungsarbeit der
Editoren
in der Kasseler Tageszeitung HNA v. 17. Oktober 2011
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Great Feat for the Master
(translation)
Susan Owen-Leinert and Michael Leinert
presented their edition of Spohr’s complete Lieder
by Georg Pepl
A subtle master of Lieder composition was Kassel’s music
hero Louis Spohr (1784 -1859).
Now since the last few months his art songs can be assessed anew,
because the first critical edition of his Lieder
with piano accompaniment has been completed this spring at the publisher
Dohr in Cologne.
Two music experts well known to Kassel, Susan Owen-Leinert
and Michael Leinert are the editors of the 12 volume Lied edition.
During a well attended matinee on Sunday in the Spohr Museum, the two
reported on their research work of the last few years.
It was as exciting as a criminal novel how the Professor of Voice from
the University of Memphis, Tennessee [Susan Owen-Leinert]
and the former Artistic Director and General Manager of the
Staatstheater Kassel [Michael Leinert] expounded.
The two Spohr enthusiasts discovered songs thought to be
lost; they disclosed pseudonymes
and supplemented names of formerly unknown text authors.
So it was [for example] with the song “Wach auf“ op.103 No.6, formerly
specified as “author unknown”.
Due to the immense detective work of the Leinert’s, one knows now that
Rudolph Kulemann wrote this text.
All these new discoveries are documented in this complete edition –
a great benefit for the Spohr research.
The Lieder were acustically introduced with recordings
from various famous singers
like Marilyn Horne and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Mitsuko Shirai was heard with Mignon’s Lied “Kennst du das Land”,
a musical setting of Goethe’s poem:
with this [song] Spohr approaches the decades later Hugo Wolf. […]
Finally, Susan Owen-Leinert and Michael Leinert presented two first
editions of Spohr songs in English versions
to Dr. Karl Traugott Goldbach, the Director of the Kassel Spohr Museum.
The
First Complete Edition of Spohr's Lieder (12 vols.)
for one or two
voices and piano,
edited by Prof. Susan Owen-Leinert
and
Michael Leinert.
Publisher: Verlag Christoph Dohr, Cologne.
www.dohr.de/autor/spohr.htm
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The complete edition in 12 vols. with 111 songs is now available
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The
contents of the complete edition (12 Vols.) as pdf file
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Die Gesamtausgabe in 12 Bänden
mit 111 Liedern ist nun lieferbar
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Der Inhalt der
12bändigen_Spohr_Lied_Edition.pdf
Review
(12 vols.)
in the British magazine THE SINGER June/July 2011:
Sonntag, 18. März 2012, 20 Uhr, Philharmonie Berlin, Großer Saal
LOUIS SPOHR: „Die letzten Dinge“ WoO 61
Anna Korondi, Karolina Gumos,
Jörg Dürmüller, Thomas Tatzl,
Der Philharmonische Chor Berlin
Staatskapelle Halle
Leitung: Jörg-Peter Weigle
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New Results: our Spohr
Lied Research
Read more about the First Complete Edition of the LIEDER
by LOUIS SPOHR
Louis Spohr's life
His autobiography is available at
books.google.com
(German / English)
Spohr: Vocal Music
Louis_Spohr_Bibliography_News_and_more
Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft
Kassel
SPOHR MUSEUM KASSEL Video Clip
Braunschweigische Louis
Spohr-Gesellschaft e.V.
www.louisspohr.de
Förderverein Louis-Spohr-Stiftung e.V.
The Spohr Society of Great Britain
Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft e.V.
Spohr-Museum_Louis-Spohr-Akademie
Discography
Vocal works A selection
Spohr Lieder First
Editions
From the collection of the Spohr Society of the USA
Program booklet Spohr Concert.pdf
Hilary Hahn: The Violin as
Voice
Spohr_Violin_Competition_Weimar_2010
1. Preis: Stephen Waarts, USA ( - 14 years)
1. Preis: Kenneth Renshaw, USA ( 15 -
17 years)
Louis_Spohr_Autobiography_engl.
Vols. 1 & 2 London 1865
Works
for Chorus, edited by Christoph Heimbucher
"Das befreite Deutschland" WoO 64
Louis Spohr - Edition
Friedrich Leinert
Louis-Spohr-Musikpreis der Stadt
Braunschweig
Faust-Libretto of 1852 ( 3 acts with Rec.)
Frederik Pacius
Student of Spohr, the "father of the Finnish music"
Spohr Edition at Verlag
Dohr Cologne
Works for harp (Helga Storck)
First Complete Lieder -
Edition (Owen/Leinert)
Susan Owen -
Michael Leinert
Die Herausgeber der Spohr-Liededition
Memphis / USA:_Spohr_Concert_2009
Die NEUBURGER KAMMEROPER
Am 21., 22., 27., 28.
und 29. Juli 2012
im Stadttheater Neuburg an der Donau
Louis Spohr
DER ZWEIKAMPF MIT DER GELIEBTEN
Uraufführung: Hamburg, 15. November 1811
Oper in
3 Aufzügen
Libretto von Johann Friedrich Schink (1755-1835) ,
einem Hamburger Theaterdichter, revidiert vom Komponisten
und einem unbekannten Dichter aus Gotha.
Erstaufführung der Oper
mit rekonstruierten Dialogen
von Horst Vladar.
Libretto - without
spoken dialogues:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - Münchner Digitalisierungszentrum
SLG. Her 1998 www.digitale-sammlungen.de/
Vocal piano score (German):
http://imslp.org/wiki/Der_Zweikampf_mit_der_Geliebten,_WoO_50_(Spohr,_Louis)
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1.
Beruhigung
op. 72 Nr. 4
Peter Schreier, Tenor
Konrad Ragossnig, Guitar
Video Clip -
Recording Vienna, 1988
2.
Sei still mein Herz
op. 103 Nr. 1
Video Clip - Live recording: Susan Owen-Leinert, soprano
Carina N. Washington, clarinet Mark Ensley, piano
3.
Louis Spohr's
"Tristan chord" 1804/05
String quartet
Op. 4 Nr. 1
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