The effects of the changing social structure on music after the French Revolution; examination of the operetta in French through the emergence process and development

The French Revolution not only affected the political structures of the countries, but also affected music and many branches of art with the strengthening of the bourgeois class and the fact that the people who gained rights and freedoms after the revolution had a say. This work deals with operetta music, a new genre that emerged as a result of the French Revolution in music, especially in the field of performing arts. In this study, it is investigated how the changing social structure in France with the French Revolution, the changes it has made in the field of performing arts and how operetta music, which is a newly formed genre, has been affected. The research started with the reflections of the socio-economic changes that emerged with the French Revolution on society, then the effects of these changes on Romantic music were examined, and then the emergence and development process of the operetta genre, which is the form of the Romantic Period, was discussed. The French Revolution brought the idea of freedom to different classes in the society, and the idea of individualism of Romantic period led to the birth of operetta. It was concluded that the liberated society contributed to the development of this genre with its acquired rights.