The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914

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To be successful, a musician often has to be an entrepreneur: someone whostarts a performing venue, develops patrons, and promotes the project aggressively.Accomplishing this requires musicians to acquire social and business skills and tobe highly opportunistic in what they do. In The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700--1914, international scholars investigate cases of musical entrepreneurshipbetween around 1700 and 1914 in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Byuncovering the ways in which musicians such as Telemann, Beethoven, Paganini, andLiszt conducted their daily business, the authors reveal how musicians reshaped theframeworks of musical culture and, in the process, the nature of the musicitself.