I agree with your characterization of court music, but again I don't understand why it should represent the entire history of the music business. At the same ti

I agree with your characterization of court music, but again I don't understand why it should represent the entire history of the music business. At the same time that European royals were commissioning symphonies as a status symbol, musicians were holding independent concerts where people paid money to hear some music and then went home. I don't think it's really relevant that many musicians are poor. Most writers in history have been poor, but the history of the book business is still mostly about people paying money to read a book.