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

Abstract

Preface I. Overview of the Subject 1. William Weber, Musician as Entrepreneur and Opportunist, 1700-1914 2. Richard Leppert, Musician of the Imagination II. Early Musical Entrepreneurs 3. Tanya Kevorkian, 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