ozart, but he carried certain elements in Mozart's works, such as sweetness of melody and the chromatic inflection of the old major and minor tonality, beyond their logical conclusion. Some of his own works suffer from an overemphasis on these features, the overdone usages of chromaticism claimed by some to have weakened his music. Nonetheless, in his time he was something of a revolutionary modernist who, through his use of chromaticism and unusual ideas about form and subject matter, influenced the later 19th century Romantics more than is generally realized ("Louis Spohr").
Spohr today is one of the lesser known composers of the era, but this was not the case in his own
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