-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SUNDRIES: Price&wage links,articles;spying fur LXV;Paris Star Map;foodprices Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:50:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Chevallier <JIMCHEVAL at AOL.COM> Reply-To: 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion <C18-L at lists.psu.edu> To: C18-L at LISTS.PSU.EDU
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Exceptionally, this is a PAID article - however the subject seems sufficiently interesting to note it:
On the economics of musical composition in Mozart's Vienna _http://www.springerlink.com/content/lq33u8362844437g/_ (http://www.springerlink.com/content/lq33u8362844437g/)
"Abstract The article provides historical evidence suggesting that a substantial element in the explanation of the profusion of talented composers in the 18th century Habsburg empire was the fragmentation of the state into many near-independent states, each with its own court seeking entertainment and prestige through new musical offerings. The resulting profusion of jobs attracted people into the profession and provided hearings for their work. The article also examines the data on Mozart's finances and using a rough translation of 18th century Austrian currency into current dollars supports recent revisionist findings that, with the exception of several years, he was relatively well off."