His brief studies with Abb?Vogler led to his Variations on the Ballet Air of Vogler's Castor and Pollux as well as his Eight Variations on Vogler's Samori, studies which themselves had begun almost from the moment he showed any musical aptitude in the attempt of his father to turn him into another Mozart, who had actually married this man's cousin Constanze. Though his voice was permanently damaged when he accidentally drank a glass of acid he was using while lithographing his own compositions, his ability to conduct and play guitar were undamaged, as was his ability to play piano, for which instrument he wrote his Invitation to the Dance and Polacca Brilliante, though he was better known for operas like Peter Schmoll and his Neighbors, The one-act Abu Hassan, and 
His brief studies with Abb?Vogler led to his Variations on the Ballet Air of Vogler's Castor and Pollux as well as his Eight Variations on Vogler's Samori, studies which themselves had begun almost from the moment he showed any musical aptitude in the attempt of his father to turn him into another Mozart, who had actually married this man's cousin Constanze. Though his voice was permanently damaged when he accidentally drank a glass of acid he was using while lithographing his own compositions, his ability to conduct and play guitar were undamaged, as was his ability to play piano, for which instrument he wrote his Invitation to the Dance and Polacca Brilliante, though he was better known for operas like Peter Schmoll and his Neighbors, The one-act Abu Hassan, and Euryanthe. FTP name this composer best known for The Free-Shooter.
His brief studies with Abb?Vogler led to his Variations on the Ballet Air of Vogler's Castor and Pollux as well as his Eight Variations on Vogler's Samori, studies which themselves had begun almost from the moment he showed any musical aptitude in the attempt of his father to turn him into another Mozart, who had actually married this man's cousin Constanze.
Carl Maria von Weber