成人快手

Back up to: Composer of the Week

1. 'I am going to London to die'

   5/5 Weber visits London for his opera Oberon, but his health deteriorates and he dies aged 39.
2. 'An artist's sphere of influence is the world'

   4/5 The woodland setting of Der Freisch眉tz entrances Weber's German audience.
3. 'Landscape is to me the performance of a piece of music'

   3/5 Weber is deeply influenced by new Romantic ideas.
4. 'You have to go out; away into the distance'

   2/5 Weber's life continues - always on the move and always in debt.
5. 'You will never be a musician!'

   1/5 Weber's childhood as travelling player - first opera at 14 and banishment from W眉rttemberg