Louis Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8 in A minor, Op. 47,

Louis Spohr

Louis Spohr (5 April 1784 – 22 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer and violinist. He was also a significant conductor, being one of the first to use a baton. Highly regarded during his lifetime (throughout his life Spohr was famous for being as generous and warm a person as he was profound a musician) his output fell into obscurity following his death.

 Violin Concerto No. 8 in A minor, Op. 47,

Spohr composed more than 150 works with opus numbers, in addition to a number of nearly 140 works without such numbers: ten symphonies, ten operas, four clarinet concerti, four oratorios and various works for small ensemble, chamber music (36 string quartets,duos, trios, quintets and sextets, an octet and a nonet….) and art songs.
Between 1803 and 1844 Spohr wrote more violin concertos than any other composer of the time, including works left unpublished at his death. Some of them are formally unconventional, such as the one-movement

Concerto No. 8, which is in the style of an operatic aria (Spohr departs radically from standard concerto format by putting the soloist into the role of a singer in a dramatic scene).