IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-43226-2_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

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

In: On Music, Money and Markets

Author

Listed:
  • Luis Perdices de Blas

    (Complutense University of Madrid)

  • José Luis Ramos-Gorostiza

    (Complutense University of Madrid)

Abstract

Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel were two outstanding German composers born in 1685, who revolutionised the world of late Baroque music. However, their professional careers took different directions. Bach was an honest and humble “craftsman” who came from a long line of musicians and, like his predecessors, placed his skills at the service of a court or the municipal and religious authorities. Händel, for his part, always jealously guarded his independence and played a key role in the development of the concept of the “free artist”. Therefore, they embraced two very different models, which had a decisive impact not only on their socio-economic status, but also on the genres they explored and their understanding of musical composition. These models also influenced the amount of social recognition they achieved, both in life and posthumously.

Suggested Citation

  • Luis Perdices de Blas & José Luis Ramos-Gorostiza, 2023. "Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel: The Economics of Late Baroque Market for Music," Springer Books, in: Thomas Baumert & Francisco Cabrillo (ed.), On Music, Money and Markets, chapter 0, pages 21-43, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-43226-2_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43226-2_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-43226-2_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.