Servility, opportunity, and freedom in the choice of music composition as a profession

Musical Quarterly

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 718-734

  Scherer, Frederic M ^a  

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EID: 27144466125     PISSN: 00274631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mq/85.4.718     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. See Dana C. Munto, A History of the Middle Ages (New York: Appleton, 1904), chaps. 17-19
2. Norbert Elias, Mozart: Portrait of a Genius, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 26. The original German-language version was published in 1991
3. William J. Baumol and Hilda Baumol, "On the Economics of Musical Composition in Mozart's Vienna, " Journal of Cultural Economics 18 (1994): 172
4. Thus, when he was urged to behave with proper deference to his student Archduke Rudolph, son of the Austrian emperor, Beethoven observed that although he had the greatest possible reverence for Rudolph's person, he could not bring himself to observe all the deferential formalities. Rudolph is said to have laughed good-naturedly and gave orders to let Beethoven pursue their relationship in his own way. From the biographical notes of Franz Wegeler, reproduced in Beethoven Remembered: The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries, trans. Frederick Noonan (Arlington, Va.: Great Ocean, 1987), 99
5. Wilhelm Bauer and Otto Erich Deutsch, eds., Mozart: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, vol. 3 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1962), 279
6. H. C. Robbins Landon, The Collected Correspondence and London Notebooks of Joseph Haydn (Fair Lawn, N.J.: Essential Books, 1959), 118
7. H. C. Robbins Landon and David Wyn Jones, Haydn: His Life and Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 298
8. Otto Erich Deutsch, Handel: A Documentary Biography (New York: Norton, 1955), 5
9. Richard Petzoldt, Georg Philipp Telemann, trans. Horace Fitzpatrick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974), 23, 30
10. Nancy B. Reich, Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), 123
11. Jan Swafford, Johannes Brahms (New York: Knopf, 1997), 173
12. Styra Avins, ed., Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 158
13. For more details on the sampling approach, see Scherer, Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economies of Music Composition in the 18th and 19th Centuries (forthcoming)
14. Charles Burney, An Eighteenth-Century Musical Tour in Central Europe and the Netherlands, ed. Percy A. Scholes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959), 131-32
15. Hector Berlioz, Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865, trans. Rachel Holmes and Eleanor Holmes, annotated by Ernest Newman (New York: Dover, 1966), 414
16. David Good, The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 46
17. On the complex changes during this period, see Jerome Blum, The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978)
18. See Scherer, Quarter Notes