Description
Book SynopsisLeading international scholars consider the socio-economic history of Classical and Romantic musicians.
Trade ReviewWeber is an excellent music historian and the book will please all readers interested in musical sociology . . . July 2005
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Table of ContentsPreface
I. Overview of the Subject
1. William Weber, "The Musician as Entrepreneur and Opportunist, 1700-1914"
2. Richard Leppert, "The Musician of the Imagination"
II. Early Musical Entrepreneurs
3. Tanya Kevorkian, "Changing Times, Changing Music: 'New Church' Music and Musicians in Leipzig, 1700-1750"
4. David Gramit, "Selling the Serious: The Commodification of Music and Resistance to it in Germany, c. 1800"
III. Concert Management in the Nineteenth Century
5. William Weber, "From the Self-Managing Musician to the Independent Concert Agent"
6. Laure Schnapper, "Bernard Ullman-Henri Herz: An Example of Financial and Artistic Partnership, 1846-1849"
7. Dana Gooley, "Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso as Strategist"
8. Simon McVeigh, "'An Audience for High-Class Music': The Musician as Entrepreneur in late Nineteenth-Century London"
IV. Women as Entrepreneurs
9. Tia DeNora, "Embodiment and Opportunity: Bodily Capital, Reputation and Social Difference in Beethoven's Vienna Partnership"
10. Paula Gillett, "Entrepreneurial Women Musicians in Britain: 1790s to the early 1900s"
11. Jann Pasler, "Countess Greffulhe as Entrepreneur: Negotiating Class, Gender, and Nation"
Index
Contributors
