Given that fugue is rightly considered to be the most complex contrapuntal form, it is really amazing that it became a German composer Carl Maria von Weber's form of choice when he was only eleven or twelve years old. This and that he had never composed anything before must've been already a good reason for people surrounding him to realize von Weber's name will without a doubt create a stir in music. And so that happened.
I have no evidence whether young Carl was surprised with success of his opera Die Macht der Liebe und des Weins, which was composed when he was 14 – what is important is that he had kept the momentum ever since. Of everything that was written by von Weber particularly interesting is Der Freischütz, a cornerstone of German romantic opera. Find a score of an overture here: Der Freischütz. Ouvertüre, J.277 Op.77.
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