The musician as entrepreneur, 1700-1914 : managers, charlatans, and idealists

Abstract

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