The social status of the professional musician from the Middle Ages to the 19th century / Walter Salmen, general editor ; annotated and translated from the German by Herbert Kaufman and Barbara Reisner.

Sozialstatus des Berufsmusikers vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert. English.

New York : Pendragon Press, [1983], ©1983.

ix, iii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Translation of: Der Sozialstatus des Berufsmusikers vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert.

The social status of the musician in the Middle Ages / Walter Salmen -- The social status of the town musician / Heinrich W. Schwab -- The social status of organists in Lutheran Germany from the 16th through the 19th century / Arnfried Edler -- On the social status of the Spielmann (folk musician) in 17th and 18th century Germany, particularly in the Northwest / Dieter Krickeberg -- The hautboist : an outline of evolving careers and functions / Werner Braun -- The economic conditions of the 18th century musician / Richard Petzoldt -- The musician as music dealer in the second half of the 18th century / Klaus Hortschansky -- The origin and social status of the court orchestral musician in the 18th and early 19th century in Germany / Christoph-Hellmut Mahling -- Social obligations of the emancipated musician in the 19th century / Walter Salmen.

Includes bibliographical references.

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