I live in the 16th at Paris and a new symphony was created in Vienna. How can I hear it and know about it?
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So you’re talking about the 1500s right? Well.. you wouldn’t hear about a symphony being made, because they didnt exist for at least another 100 years, until the early 1600s.
in your time, you would be hearing [Renaissance music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZCtH_O55Y) — which sounds like the music you find in every medieval hero’s tale movie or video game. It was made with instruments from brass, woodwind, strings and drums families, but this era’s versions only sorta resemble the later versions you’d be more familiar with today. The Baroque era (which is often mistaken for classical) did not start until the early 1600s, with the most famous Baroque composer, Bach, did not come until the mid 1700s. This is the period symphonies and many of these new ideas of music began that would come to be what we often lump all together as classical music.
So, but lets say you do want to hear about new music? Well, you’re not going to. High end music by these composers was generally done in church and for the upper class and nobility exclusively. A musician was often just employed by a rich person to play music for them and their guests during parties, though of course they did compose music for other occasions. So if some guy slammed out a banger on April 6, 1545 at some party at a palace where everyone was shitfaced on wine, unless you where there, you probably aint never gonna hear it again nor hear of it. Additionally, people did not travel much, except to war or complain, as a rich ass nobility music fan you wouldn’t decide to leave Paris one day and just go to Vienna to catch a show, even if word had come of some great composition, well, if you wanted and were rich enough, maybe you can just have that person come to you! Or tell your musicians to go learn from them. But likely, you wouldn’t know a damn thing.
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