L30/14/298/3

Sent from London to 2nd Baron Grantham, Madrid:

3 Oct 1778

From: 1778 To: 1778

Music printers never print a work without first hearing it, or being well acquainted with the author's style, or indeed without his being well acquainted with the public. If Mr Canales will send over any of his compositions in single parts (not in score) ready to be rehearsed, Paxton will get them tried and do the best he can for him. If Canales prefers to risk publishing his own compositions at his own expence, engraving is about six shillings a page, plus the cost of paper, printing etc. Printers either buy the entire right in the copy and publish it as they please, or give the author a smaller sum and 50 or 100 copies, as they esteem the composition. Messrs Bach and Abel, first rate composers, have about £100 for a work of six pieces, but authors of less reputation receive much less. Sends Canales copies of his own "little performances", and hopes to see Grantham in England soon.

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Canales,
Paxton, Stephen,
Bach,
Abel

MUSIC, printing, publishing, composers