The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the PresentHarperPress, 2006 - 1617 pages "This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET. |
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From 1800 to the Present Donald Sassoon. 27 Music , Composers and Virtuosi The Triumph of Dead Composers UNTIL THE TWENTIETH CENTURY it was not easy to make money out of music . In the eighteenth century composers needed to be subsidised ...
From 1800 to the Present Donald Sassoon. 27 Music , Composers and Virtuosi The Triumph of Dead Composers UNTIL THE TWENTIETH CENTURY it was not easy to make money out of music . In the eighteenth century composers needed to be subsidised ...
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... composers of music . This was the beginning of the music business . In the eighteenth century music publishers were in the business of selling music sheets . In the nine ... composer Louis Spohr , ' as a MUSIC , COMPOSERS AND VIRTUOSI • 509.
... composers of music . This was the beginning of the music business . In the eighteenth century music publishers were in the business of selling music sheets . In the nine ... composer Louis Spohr , ' as a MUSIC , COMPOSERS AND VIRTUOSI • 509.
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... composers was complete . Their advance had been relentless . Between 1815 and 1825 , 77 per cent of works played at the Leipzig Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde were by living composers . Between 1838 and 1848 living composers were down to ...
... composers was complete . Their advance had been relentless . Between 1815 and 1825 , 77 per cent of works played at the Leipzig Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde were by living composers . Between 1838 and 1848 living composers were down to ...
Contents
The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion | 3 |
Triumphant Languages | 21 |
Publishing | 41 |
Copyright | |
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