Re: Historically, where there many artists who, after breaking free from the will of their patron, found themselves at the mercy of the whims of their public?

[joseph berg]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:49 AM, joseph berg <art...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Historically, where there many artists who, after breaking free from the
> will of their patron, found themselves at the mercy of the whims of their
> public?


According to the following:

- ...Soviet composers enjoyed a creative freedom impossible in the West,
with its modernising fashions, to which subservience was obligatory.

http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.550801&catNum=550801&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English