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This time I have made enough pamphlets (startrek.website)
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[–] kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de 70 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Lol, thinking opera composers were rich people.

[–] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

~20 min clicking through the wikipedia page on Opera seems to suggest you're correct, most of them were middle class or poor

huh. til

[–] kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 years ago

Many classical composers were basically like pets rich people owned (sponsored).

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