The blossoming of classical music culture

The music of the Italian and German late Renaissance and the Baroque period was slow to gain foothold in Switzerland. For one thing, courtly structures were lacking in Switzerland. For centuries, they were the driving force of music culture in neighbouring countries. On the one hand, the intellectual upheavals of the Reformation led to music being largely banned from the churches in the Protestant cantons.

Thus, in the early 17th century, the musical culture of the bourgeois social class emerged with some delay.