Baumol, Hilda; Baumol, William - In: Journal of Cultural Economics 26 (2002) 3, pp. 167-184
It is tempting to conjecture that the Viennese aristocrats who provided financial support to Beethoven were afflicted by a curse. At the very least, their tales demonstrate the risks that beset even the most privileged members of their society at the onset of the nineteenth century. Here we...