Books by Rebecca Dowd (Associate Professor of Music History Geoffroy-Schwinden

From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution exposes the fundamental role that the French Revolution played in the emergence of modern professional musicianship. Geoffroy-Schwinden demonstrates how the French Revolution set the stage for the emergence of so-called musical "Romanticism" among the likes of Beethoven and the legacies that continue to haunt musical institutions and industries.