On 16.01.2007 Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
The only areas that could mount public concerts that were able to pay for themselves completely by the box office sales (and NOT support by a nobleman), were in London, Paris, Vienna. The really big concerts didn't happen until nearly the end of the 18th century. Almost 150 years after the "modern orchestra" developed in Louis XIV's court. That's a long long time.
Well, that I must say is a little too much assumption. You forget Corelli (those were really big concerts, no?), and what about Dresden? That was a pretty normal size orchestra by todays standards, and we even know how they were seated.
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