Karol Jan Borowiecki

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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist

THIS DISSERTATION PROVIDES new insights on creativity and the lives of creative people, byavailing of unique data-sets covering the lives, works and emotional states of famousmusic composers. The underlying research documents the long-run persistence of a society’spreference towards cultural goods and shows that the geography of composerbirths displays remarkable continuity over a period of seven centuries. It formalizesand documents the trade-off between agglomeration economies (beneficial peer effects)and diseconomies (peer crowding) experienced by music composers. Furthermore,it is explored how peer crowding impacts composers’ emotional well-being. Theresults point to a large reduction in composers’ longevity, if they are located in citieswhere the peer competition has been greater. Finally, the determinants of psychologicalwell-being are studied and quantitative evidence is provided on the existenceof a causal impact of negative emotions on outstanding creativity - an associationhypothesized across several disciplines since Antiquity; however, not yet convincinglyestablished.

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