Social Status Of The Professional Musici

For the Pendragon English-language edition two new essays were commissioned and the original text expanded and revised.

The social status of the musician in the Middle Ages / Walter Salmen -- The social status of the town musician / Heinrich W. Schwab -- The social status of organists in Lutheran Germany from the 16th through the 19th century / Arnfried Edler -- On the social status of the Spielmann (folk musician) in 17th and 18th century Germany, particularly in the Northwest / Dieter Krickeberg -- The hautboist : an outline of evolving careers and functions / Werner Braun -- The economic conditions of the 18th century musician / Richard Petzoldt -- The musician as music dealer in the second half of the 18th century / Klaus Hortschansky -- The origin and social status of the court orchestral musician in the 18th and early 19th century in Germany / Christoph-Hellmut Mahling -- Social obligations of the emancipated musician in the 19th century / Walter Salmen.