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Thread #127679 Message #2852340
Posted By: Ron Davies
28-Feb-10 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: Music Mystery - 'You're so Vain' subject
Subject: RE: Music Mystery - 'You're so Vain' subject
And of course there actually was no "commercial market" during Mozart's time. That appears to have changed with Beethoven--when a sizable middle-class market did in fact start to arise, especially with more pianos in homes. A fascinating examination of this in Paul Johnson, The Birth of the Modern, an excellent--and very lively-- book on the period circa 1815-1830 in all its aspects.