On 03/03/2011 9:35 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> I think that’s a misconception. Mozart was buried in a multiple grave
>> but that was common practice in Vienna at that time.
>
>  From wikipedia:
> There had been delays in calling a doctor—probably, according to
> Halliwell, because of a lack of funds.[26]
>
> However, you may very well be right. I was under the impression he was
> poor, certainly poor relative to his abilities.

I was listening to a radio programme the other day when I heard that 
snippet. BBC Radio 3 so it must be right. ;-)

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On 03/03/2011 09:03 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Music that's technically impressive, or music that people will
>> actually pay money for?
>
> Mozart died a pauper. :-)

I gather that in his own lifetime, Bach was known as a virtuoso 
organist. But relatively *unknown* as an actual composer...

I wonder how many other "exceptional" composers were regarded as nothing 
particularly special when they were actually live?

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 09:03 PM, Darren New wrote:
> > Invisible wrote:
> >> Music that's technically impressive, or music that people will
> >> actually pay money for?
> >
> > Mozart died a pauper. :-)
>
> I gather that in his own lifetime, Bach was known as a virtuoso
> organist. But relatively *unknown* as an actual composer...
>
> I wonder how many other "exceptional" composers were regarded as nothing
> particularly special when they were actually live?

You should remember that in those times musicians were actually servants to
aristocrats.  Their worth was in composing ceremonial music, ball music, sacra
music etc under some tight schedule.  There was not a great deal of cult of
celebrity as would develop during XIX's Romanticism, when artists lost
aristocratic patronage and had to struggle to survive by performing to an
audience or selling copies of their works.

in any case, sure folks those times had much better taste for arts... ;)

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