The descendant of the violin virtuoso, composer and court kapellmeister Louis Spohr first studied law, then music and musicology in Munich with Anton Beer-Walbrunn, Adolf Sandberger and Theodor Kroyer.
There he published the article Zum hundertjährigen Geburtstag Franz Lachner's in the Münchener Zeitung already in 1903.
After a study stay in Italy, he worked as a private lecturer in Munich from 1909, where he habilitated in musicology in 1910, and from 1914 to 1915 he was director of the Salzburg Mozarteum.
2.442.825[2] and in November 1933 signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State.
He wrote for the Dresdner Nachrichten[3] and the Nazi journal Musik im Kriege [de].