Piano Forum
Piano Board => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: mrcreosote on March 30, 2018, 02:15:37 AM
-
Before sound recording, music could only be performed. (Musicians were also the reproduction mechanisms. I recite classical music. I don't consider myself a musician and certainly not an artist. Piano player, pianist, yes, as in a million machine operator.)
Churches obviously. But where to hear a Beethoven symphony? I'll bt Operas were popular as are Musicals today (ugh...)
On the other hand, with a total lack of music in rural areas, folk music must have flourished.
The reality of that time is incomprehensible for me - even today, what did it take to attend a Horowitz or a Martha concert? Perhaps the best argument for living in NYC.