Tim Blanning, "The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art"
English | ISBN: 0674057090 | 2010 | 432 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today's rock stars. How, he asks, did music progress from subordinate status to its present position of supremacy among the creative arts? Mozart was literally booted out of the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg "with a kick to my arse," as he expressed it. Yet, less than a hundred years later, Europe's most powerful ruler―Emperor William I of Germany―paid homage to Wagner by traveling to Bayreuth to attend the debut of