On 16 Jan 2007 at 8:33, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > 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.
Yes, but these were exceptions rather than the rule, relevant, of course, to performing the music of the composer who had those resources available, but certainly not sufficient that we should generalize that nearly unique situation to the whole period. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
