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Paris Epidemic and Art World

When reading music history writings, music textbooks a while ago, we quickly skipped those statements as “in that year cholera was raging in the city”, or “everybody who had the possibility moved to the countryside away from the epidemic”. Today however, as a global pandemic hit us as well, we are getting caught up in these findings, and we are reading every detail with special attention.

It is a fact that in the spring of 1832, Paris suffered a widespread cholera epidemic, resulting in 18,400 deaths in the city and nearly 100,000 in France. We wonder how this affected the contemporary art life? We will try to analyze this, quoting from the testimonies of the writers-poets, as well as focusing on the living conditions of some significant musicians, highlighting the events of their career from those times.