Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
Arts & Ideas
Music and the French Revolution
Music comes from a different social situation at the time of Vienna most musicians were basically employed labourers they worked for especially these 1500 odd German courts that Andrew mentioned. A few very important figures begin to rebel against that and the most such as Beethoven who decides he doesn't want to work as a labour of artificial so he comes to Vienna becomes a freelance composer. Schubert's songs are a kind of function of a social results of the French Revolution among other things which empowered the bourgeoisie produced this class of people with more money and more free time. At the same time development of musical instruments like the piano suddenly becomes a very much more sophisticated instrument haven't been invented in the early 18th
