Demand for music as entertainment and as an activity for educated amateurs increased with the emergence of a bourgeois class.

In both the north and the south, a stable petty bourgeois class emerged.

Around 1890, the division between east and west was prominent and most districts of the city were marked by class, either by working-class or bourgeois class.

His work was a popular success with the bourgeois class and many editions of each sculpture were made, often to decorate an increasing number of private homes of the period.