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Sacramento Baroque Soloists
is recognized as a 501c3 non-profit corporation by the IRS. Your
contributions are essential to its continued
growth and success. Your tax-deductible donation entitles you to special
benefits throughout the season including program listings, and special donor receptions and concerts.
Contributor levels:
The Margrave of
Brandenburg was the patron to whom J.S. Bach dedicated his Brandenburg Concertos,
some of his most important instrumental
works.
La Poupliniere was a
wealthy French nobleman whose salon was a gathering place for artists and
literary men of all types. He sought out promising but obscure musicians and
took pleasure in promoting their careers.
Prince
Paul Anton Esterhazy was head of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Hungarian noble
families, a man devoted to music, a bountiful patron of the arts, and Haydn's
employer.
Handel's
master, the Elector of Hanover, was proclaimed King George I of England and
patronized Handel's long and prosperous career in London.
The
most famous of all Florentine families, the Medicis patronized the arts of all types in Renaissance
Europe, bringing to Italy the most promising composers from France, Flanders,
and the Netherlands.
Louis
XIV, called "The Sun King", was the grandest of patrons of the arts, producing
and dancing in large-scale ballets and sponsoring the 24 Violins of the King,
who played at every occasion, from promenades to banquets to concerts.
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