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✤ Concert hall as a “musical museum”

✤ A work’s lasting aesthetic value of supreme importance

✤ What we’re seeing is a shift to works as musical monuments written by Great Composers whose inspired music expresses their artistic individuality. This music, which is viewed as timeless and aesthetically important, is ideally to be studied and understood by its audience for their own self-betterment.

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✤ Variety of factors helps lead to this:

✤ Economic

✤ Aesthetic

✤ Cultural