William Weber

The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914

Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists
Herausgeber: Weber, William E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Leading international scholars consider the socio-economic history of Classical and Romantic musicians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780253344564
• ISBN-10: 0253344565
• Artikelnr.: 14598692

Autorenporträt

edited by William E. Weber

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
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