Thank you for posting this. I did a thesis on a similar topic called “The Industrialization of Music,” which I feel began around the time of Mozart and Beethoven, and then swept the landscape after the French Revolution. Very interesting topic. And a little sad for me, as I watched the Classical Era begin to disintegrate before my very eyes in the history books. I was torn: it seemed to coincide with the demise of the aristocracy and the new “liberty” of the coming world and, while I believed deeply into the concept of liberty, I also felt some grief for the beginning of the demise of Classical Music. A real conundrum.
Bookmarking. This is a good article.
Cheers.