On 15 Jan 2007 at 14:56, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > The London orchestral public concerts didn't really start until the > J.C. Bach / Abel academies; and that was pretty late in the game. The > only concert series I can think of in London that had "competition" > were the ones in the early 1790s, almost another 40 years later.
Also, it's important to realize that London was really unique among European cities in developing a commercial culture and a modern middle class, as well as in having a publishing industry protected by the first copyright law in Europe. I don't think the norms in London became the norms in other major musical capitals until well after 1800. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
