Quarter Notes and Bank Notes (eBook)

The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

F. M. Scherer (Autor)

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2018
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18809-6 (ISBN)

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In 1700, most composers were employees of noble courts or the church. But by the nineteenth century, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Verdi, and many others functioned as freelance artists teaching, performing, and selling their compositions in the private marketplace. While some believe that Mozart's career marks a clean break between these two periods, this book tells the story of a more complex and interesting transition. F. M. Scherer first examines the political, intellectual, and economic roots of the shift from patronage to a freelance market. He describes the eighteenth-century cultural "arms race" among noble courts, the spread of private concert halls and opera houses, the increasing attendance of middle-class music lovers, and the founding of conservatories. He analyzes changing trends in how composers acquired their skills and earned their living, examining such impacts as demographic developments and new modes of transportation. The book offers insight into the diversity of composers' economic aspirations, the strategies through which they pursued success, the burgeoning music publishing industry, and the emergence of copyright protection. Scherer concludes by drawing some parallels to the economic state of music composition in our own times. Written by a leading economist with an unusually broad knowledge of music, this fascinating account is directed toward individuals intrigued by the world of classical composers as well as those interested in economic history or the role of money in art.

Autor

F. M. Scherer is Aetna Professor Emeritus at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and the author of many books.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alexander Borodin • balance of trade • bank failure • Banknote • Bank of England • Baumol's cost disease • Bedrich Smetana • Benedetto Marcello • Carl Friedrich Abel • Cash register • Collegium musicum • Composer • Corn Laws • Creditor • Currency • customs union • czechoslovakia • Domenico Scarlatti • Ducat • Economic History • Economics • Emanuel Schikaneder • Emmanuel Chabrier • Exchange Rate • excise tax • feudalism • Financial Crisis • For Marx • Franz Berwald • Franz Liszt • Frederick the Great • Friedrich d'or • Friedrich Kalkbrenner • Fritz Simrock • George Frideric Handel • Georg Joseph Vogler • Georg Philipp Telemann • Gioachino Rossini • Giovanni Bononcini • Giovanni Ricordi • Giuseppe Verdi • Gottfried Silbermann • Gottfried van Swieten • Half guinea • Hanover Square Rooms • Harvard Business School • Harvard University • Hector Berlioz • Henry Purcell • income • income distribution • Israel in Egypt • Jean-Baptiste Lully • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Jean-Philippe Rameau • Johann Christian Bach • Johann David Heinichen • Johannes Brahms • Johann Friedrich Agricola • Johann Kuhnau • Johann Mattheson • Johann Nepomuk Hummel • Johann Stamitz • John Playford • Klemens von Metternich • labor theory of value • La Scala • Leipzig • Liberal arts education • Louis d'or • Ludwig van Beethoven • Michael Haydn • Missa solemnis • Modest Mussorgsky • Money changer • Music publisher (sheet music) • Napoleon • Nicola Porpora • oratorio • Pension • Phonograph • Pound Sterling • P. T. Barnum • purchasing power • Purchasing Power Parity • pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky • Robert Schumann • Schumann • Silver coin • Tax • The Beggar's Opera • The Economist • Theobald Boehm • United States Dollar • University of Cambridge • Vincenzo Galilei • Waltz • Waltzes (Chopin) • William Herschel • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18809-2 / 0691188092
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18809-6 / 9780691188096