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On Music, Money and Markets

Comparing the Finances of Great Composers

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Baumert

    1. Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Francisco Cabrillo

    1. Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  • Discusses the role of music in the history of economic thought
  • Gives unique insights into the finances of great composers in their historic-economical context
  • Compares the income (and expenditure) of pairs of composers that opted for different market models

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Did you know that Bach invested in mines? That Rossini improved his income by running casinos in the opera houses which on weekends performed his operas? Or that Puccini composed shorter arias to make them fit the length of gramophone disks as they reported him huge revenues? Or who was, in financial terms, the most successful classical composer in history? This book —the first of its kind— studies and compares the finances of twenty classical composers in their historical and economical context. Each chapter details and quantifies the sources of income of these musicians (wages, royalties, subsidies, percentages over the number of performances, arrangements, investments in the musical sector, etc), thus allowing to estimate the income they obtained due to their artistic — primarily compositional, but also related— activities. In addition, it also estimates the composer’s expenditures, thus drawing a relatively complete image of their personal finances. This not only allows to concludeto create a ranking of composers according to their economic success, but —more importantly— for the first time gives an accurate image of the financial situation of a broad set of composers. This allows to correct many false believes while also giving new insights on the relation between economics and music history.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: On the Economics of Music and the Finances of Great Composers

    • Thomas Baumert, Francisco Cabrillo
    Pages 1-19

  3. Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel: The Economics of Late Baroque Market for Music

    • Luis Perdices de Blas, José Luis Ramos-Gorostiza
    Pages 21-43

  4. Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Collusive Friendship

    • Thomas Baumert
    Pages 45-68

  5. Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert: The Economic (Un)consciousness of the Artist

    • Francisco Cabrillo, Thomas Baumert
    Pages 69-87

  6. Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti: The Economics of Belcanto

    • Miguel-Ángel Galindo-Martín, María-Teresa Méndez-Picazo
    Pages 89-112

  7. Vincenzo Bellini and Giacomo Meyerbeer: Shifting Markets (From Belcanto to the Grand Opera)

    • María-Teresa Méndez-Picazo, Miguel-Ángel Galindo-Martín
    Pages 113-138

  8. Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann: Parallel Lives, Liberal Delusions

    • Estrella Trincado Aznar
    Pages 139-162

  9. Wagner and Verdi: Gesamtkunstwerk and Modern Business

    • Francisco Cabrillo
    Pages 163-184

  10. Jacques Offenbach and Johann Strauss II: Operettas, Waltzes, and the Value of Brands

    • Manuel Santos Redondo
    Pages 185-207

  11. Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss: The Economics of Music Up to the Dawn of Fascism

    • Miguel-Ángel Galindo-Martín, María-Teresa Méndez-Picazo, Thomas Baumert
    Pages 209-223

  12. Manuel de Falla and Igor Stravinsky: From National Schools to International Markets

    • Pedro J. Galván Lamet, Daniel del Castillo Soto
    Pages 225-250
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Thomas Baumert, Francisco Cabrillo

About the editors

Thomas Baumert is Professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He has been a visiting researcher at the Fraunhofer-ISI Institute in Karlsruhe (Germany) and visiting professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster (Germany). His research ―which has resulted in a wide range of publications in high-impact national and international journals and publishers― has been funded by prominent institutions, including the European Union, the United States Department of Homeland Security, the German Historical Institute of Washington and the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. He is a permanent member of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) and patron of the Cultural Foundation of the Valencian Community "Salvador Tuset Tuset".

Francisco Cabrillo is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and Senior Professor of Economics at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain). With an outstanding academic record, he has been visiting fellow at the Universities of Princeton, Rome and Oxford. From 1990 to 2008 he was director of the European Erasmus Program in Law and Economics in Spain. He is director of the Master in Law and Economics of the EAE Business School and of the Harvard Seminar in Law and Economics (Fundación Rafael del Pino-Harvard University). He has held relevant positions in public administration, being Chairman of the Socioeconomic Committee of Madrid from 2004 to 2011.

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