> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I don't think it is important that you wrote the >> music yourself, but a >> renaissance musician would only have played the >> music he believed in. > > Were did this idea ever come from? Renaissance > musicians played whatever their patrons believed in. > For instance, there is an anecdote about Haydn's > patron, Count Esterhazy, who seriously reprimanded a > cellist in his employ who was gaining a reputation > outside the estate for being an excellent performer. > He said, "It is your duty to play well and you are to > take no pride in it." This, near the end of the days > of the regular patronage system. And we think the > music biz is hard today! > > Perhaps there were some performers who did play only > what they believed in. If so, we know nothing about > them. There was only one performer and composer who only did what he believed in: Johann Gottfried Müthel. He had unusually sympathetic circumstances. RT
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