Music and the Middle Classes: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna Between 1830 and 1848 (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain)

by WilliamWeber (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2003

  $131.67

  The idea that the middle class arose during the 1880s is now widely accepted amongst social historians but the notion that such a social group dominated music appreciation is probably untrue. This book explores the European middle class and its role in musical life.