The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914: Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253344565 ISBN 13: 9780253344564

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2004

Synopsis

To be successful, a musician often has to be an entrepreneur: someone who starts a performing venue, develops patrons, and promotes the project aggressively. Accomplishing this requires musicians to acquire social and business skills and to be highly opportunistic in what they do. In The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700–1914, international scholars investigate cases of musical entrepreneurship between around 1700 and 1914 in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. By uncovering the ways in which musicians such as Telemann, Beethoven, Paganini, and Liszt conducted their daily business, the authors reveal how musicians reshaped the frameworks of musical culture and, in the process, the nature of the music itself.

About this title

About the Author:

William Weber, Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, has written and edited several books on music history, culture, and class. He is an Associate of the William Andrews Clark Library.

Review:

"Weber and company set out to examine the movers and shakers, shapter, and adapters within various musical and geographical landscapes in court, city, and town."

(Caryl Clark University of Toronto)

"It is the fascinating nature of the subject matter that marries scholarly disipline with intriguing reading...This is, quite simply, good stuff: well―written, solidly documented and, best yet, very interesting. The book will satisfy the thirst of historians, musicians and perhaps even an economist or two."

(American Music Teacher)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0253344565
• ISBN 13: 9780253344564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 269
• Editor: Weber William E.