A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Jüngste Gericht, Das

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1522154A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Jüngste Gericht, DasGeorge GroveGeorge Grove

JÜNGSTE GERICHT DAS, i.e. the Last Judgment. Spohr's first oratorio. Written for and produced at the Festival at Erfurt Aug. 15, 1812, in honour of Napoleon I. It was not successful; but Spohr's naïf account of the performance, and of his own predilection for it,^[1] is highly amusing. It is an entirely different work from 'Die letzten Dinge,' known in England as The Last Judgment.

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↑ Selbstbiographie, i. 169.

[1] Selbstbiographie, i. 169.

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