{"id":527,"date":"2007-11-09T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T04:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/09\/composers-make-money\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:20:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:20:22","slug":"composers-make-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/09\/composers-make-money\/","title":{"rendered":"composers make money?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting online discussion<\/a> at the excellent site NewMusicbox<\/a> about the mostly taboo subject of money and composers – it starts off with a brief essay by Mark N. Grant:<\/p>\n

Money’s role in making composing possible is the most scandalously undercovered topic in all of musicology. Many otherwise probing composer biographies are strikingly deficient in their documentation of composers’ financial day-to-day lives. Jan Swafford’s Charles Ives: A Life with Music<\/em> and Eric Gordon’s Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein<\/em> are notable exceptions, strong in their documentation of the quotidian dollars and cents. Why is a composer’s sex life open to inquiry and his money life not? In an article printed in the February 1, 1970, Sunday New York Times<\/em>, Harold Schonberg cited as history’s five richest classical composers Rossini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Puccini, and Strauss, all opera guys. Wonder if that would still be the list in 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting online discussion at the excellent site NewMusicbox about the mostly taboo subject of money and composers – it starts off with a brief essay by Mark N. Grant: Money’s role in making composing possible is the most scandalously undercovered topic in all of musicology. Many otherwise probing composer biographies are strikingly deficient in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115],"tags":[67,3669],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-classical","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-8v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1557,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/18\/new-composers-cooperative-begun\/","url_meta":{"origin":527,"position":0},"title":"new composers cooperative begun","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Cascadia Composers is a group of preeminent Northwest composers who are banding together to, in the words of its mission statement: Cascadia Composers will promote the composition and performance of contemporary classical music by regional composers, stimulate national and international awareness of this music, \u00c2\u00a0and gather composers to disseminate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "composition"","block_context":{"text":"composition","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/composition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"cascadia8_25_08b","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cascadia8_25_08b-400x296.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5692,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/05\/top-composers-revealed\/","url_meta":{"origin":527,"position":1},"title":"top composers revealed","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The online classical music aggregator InstantEncore.com has published its list of the most performed composers of 2010.\u00a0 What I immediately looked for, aside from who was No. 1 (Mozart), and who was No. 100 (Korngold), was who the currently living composers were who might populate such a list.\u00a0 Here's what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "composition"","block_context":{"text":"composition","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/composition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/InstantEncore_Logo-400x204.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":951,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/02\/more-brilliance-from-a-ross\/","url_meta":{"origin":527,"position":2},"title":"more brilliance from A-ross","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Alex Ross, music writer for the New Yorker, who was Pulitzer shortlisted for his music history page-turner The Rest Is Noise, and blogger at the site of the same name, just wrote a review of the series presented at Carnegie Hall by the Brentano Quartet, which concerned the late works\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/080505_r17340_p233.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5441,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/16\/two-kinds-of-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":527,"position":3},"title":"two kinds of music…","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"There is two kinds of music the good and bad. 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