Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M11 2 - 300 páginas
Concerts flourished in London during the second half of the eighteenth century as never before. Enterprising promoters developed subscription series around the new symphony orchestra, and the lucrative environment attracted both Mozart and Haydn, whose last twelve symphonies were written for London. This book is the first detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London's cultural life, combining a social study of concert audiences with analysis of their musical tastes and the repertoire they inspired.
 

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subscription and ancient concerts
11
Other types of concert
28
The concert in London life
53
novelty and familiarity
73
programming
101
Taste and national idioms
119
music intended to reach the heart
129
the learned the sublime and the dramatic
149
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168
The finances of concert promotion
181
The practicalities of concert promotion
206
Epilogue
223
Appendix B Concert programmes
242
Concert accounts
250
Musical sources
272
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