Mozart, The Music, The Myth, The Legend, w/ Jan Swafford
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Brams, a Composer of Popularistic Music, Is a Great Example of That
Riht: Mozart was the first composer who didn't have to work very hard on getting people to want him to write music. Riht: He wrote a lot of very popularistic music, like the hungarian dances which made a lot of money for his publisher. i think beethoven's and mozart and hyden's jaws would have dropped to the floor if they had been told here was a commissionyoa composer refused to take commissions.
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