On 1/15/07, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Yes, exactly. The musicians that were in London came over to support the attempts to bring opera to the UK, or were riding the coat-tails of the new German dynasty that been imported to keep the Catholic Stewarts from the throne. When you think about it, these orchestral concerts in London didn't take place until the complete failure of the opera; and Handel had finished composing his oratorios. Kim Patrick Clow
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