[mb-style] Setting Classical Release Artists to Performers

[David K. Gasaway]

On 18 Feb 2008 at 10:21, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:

> When I try to find rational reasons, I can't find any. But (as I often
> stated), I rationally always come to this conclusion: the problem is the
> ReleaseArtist. There is no such thing as a ReleaseArtist in classical.
> Even in other domains. The fact that releases have to be sorted in some
> order induced stores to choose something to implement this order. In non
> classical, it is often the performer, in classical, it is often the
> composer. But this is only a commercial commodity. It does not have any
> influence on the only thing which should really matter: the music.

+1 from me on all this.  I've been struggling with this as well (much 
longer than I've been around MusicBrainz).  I thank you for expressing 
the core problem so lucidly.

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