Musician As Entrepreneur, 1700-1914 Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists

Name: Musician As Entrepreneur, 1700-1914 Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists
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ISBN: 9780253344564

ISBN-10: 0253344565

ISBN-13: 9780253344564

Edition: 2004

Authors: William E. Weber, William E. Weber

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A successful musician often has to be an entrepreneur: someone who starts a performing venue, develops patrons, & aggressively promotes the project. By uncovering the ways in which musicians such as Paganini & Liszt conducted their daily business, the authors reveal how musicians reshaped musical culture.

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/9/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.45" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.298



Preface



Overview of the Subject



The Musician as Entrepreneur and Opportunist, 1700-1914




The Musician of the Imagination




Early Musical Entrepreneurs



Changing Times, Changing Music: "New Church" Music and Musicians in Leipzig, 1699-1750




Selling the Serious: The Commodification of Music and Resistance to It in Germany, circa 1800




Concert Management in the Nineteenth Century



From the Self-Managing Musician to the Independent Concert Agent




Bernard Ullman-Henri Herz: An Example of Financial and Artistic Partnership, 1846-1849




Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso as Strategist




"An Audience for High-Class Music": Concert Promoters and Entrepreneurs in Late-Nineteenth-Century London




Women as Entrepreneurs



Embodiment and Opportunity: Bodily Capital, Gender, and Reputation in Beethoven's Vienna




Entrepreneurial Women Musicians in Britain: From the 1790s to the Early 1900s




Countess Greffulhe as Entrepreneur: Negotiating Class, Gender, and Nation



Contributors


Index