Bidspirit auction | SPONTINI GASPARE: (1774-1851)

SPONTINI GASPARE: (1774-1851) - SPONTINI GASPARE: (1774-1851) Italian Composer & Conductor, a favourite of Napoleon Bonaparte. Attractive signed front page of a musical score by Spontini (circa 1835), the work was composed by Bettina von Arnim and was dedicated to Spontini. The attractively printed front page, in French, with flourishes, states ` Dédié à Spontini - Directeur général de la Musique et premier maître de chapelle de S.M. le Roi de Prusse - par Bettine Arnim ´ (” Dedicated to SPONTINI - General Director of the Music and first chapel master of H.M. the King of Prussia - by Bettine Arnim ”. To the bottom right corner Spontini, in bold black ink, donates it for a charity lottery ` offert pour la loterie du Mont Carmel par Spontini ´. Small overall minor staining, otherwise G t VGo Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859) Countess of Arnim, born Elisabeth Catharina Brentano. German Writer, Novelist, Composer, Singer, Patron of young talent and a social activist. She numbered among her closest friends Goethe and Beethoven. After 1831, she published a collection of seven songs in public support of Prussian music director Gaspare Spontini under duress at the time.