quoted 3 lines have to be? What happened to making music for the sake of making music?> have to be? What happened to making music for the sake of making music?
> It's all about the $$ now. Did Mozart charge $40 for people to hear his
> music? I think not. I believe that an artist should be fairly
compensated
Sorry, I really really wanted to avoid jumping in on another one of the
(frequent) stupid threads that pop up here (not that you are stupid <flame
protection>, but Napster?). Mozart wrote most of his life's music (including
many of the 'great works') under contract from princes, dukes, and the like
who wanted music for special occasions, or just something nice to listen to
whilst sitting around in their chambers. $40? More like $400000. Of course,
he's dead now (and for more than 50 years at that) so all the copyright
stuff is invalid... and I bet you were wondering why he wasn't filing
lawsuits against all those bad-ass pirate orchestras out there...
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