> From: Ann Verna Beedell <A.Beedell@hum.gu.edu.au>
>
> London was
> virtually the world capital of European 'art' music throughout much of the
> 18th and and 19c. Why was there no impact upon that canon?
I'm curious as to why you would say that, Anne. Paris & Vienna seem to
have much stronger salon traditions than London throughout the period,
and while a stop over in London was a requirement of any soloist, I
recall it being more of an extension of being in Paris than a truely
important independent site. For every tour of a composer like Haydn or
Mendelssohn there were more to France or Italy. It wasn't London that
Liszt, Chopin, or Rossini made for, it was Paris. It wasn't London
Bartok or Sibelius went off to study in, but Germany & Vienna.
Or are you using "art music" differently than I am?
"T"
tlewis@praline.no.Neosoft.com
Terrance L. Lewis, PhD
History Program, Social Science Dept.
Southern University at New Orleans