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Its too bad you did not live in an era of property rights -- your rebellious genius would not have been forced to truckle to archbishops and dukes, and you might have lived longer and written even more glorious music. As 2Blowhards note:
Maybe four years of financial problems caused not by his own fecklessness but rather by the real difficulty of surviving in Vienna for an artist unsuited to the patronage game didn't kill him outright, but one doubts that they contributed to his health or artistic productivity. And: I also note in passing that the Viennese model of patronage is almost exactly what most left-wing supporters of the arts would desire in today's America: public funding handed out by an elite disdainful of crass commercial considerations. They should be careful what they wish for: it might come true. (I know this was quoted here before, but its worth repeating.)
posted by James DeLong @ 8:39 AM | General
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