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In society music, or Gesellschaftsmusik, to which a large part of Franz Schubert's lied oeuvre belongs, polyphonic vocal compositions became very fashionable in around 1800 as part of bourgeois musical culture and communal singing. Society music had taken the step into the concert hall, and Schubert's name first appeared on a program of the Musikfreunde on January 25, 1821. (BR Klassik) Show more