According to Göran Therborn the bourgeois class in Sweden was first established in Göteborg in the period between 1802 and 1816. This historical evolution can also be seen in music history. Certain new trends in the musical life of the continent were first established in Sweden among the bourgeois families in Göteborg before they reached the capital, Stockholm. There are several elements that contributed to this special climate in Göteborg: on the one hand, its proximity to the continent and its various cultural centres, on the other hand, the lack of old cultural traditions and institutions with which the capital was invested. Financially, Göteborg had extremely successful families, and some of them used their fortunes to fulfil their cultural ambitions. Some of their money was used to engage prominent musicians and to invest in other ways in the city's musical life and its development. This is what Patrik Alströmer did, as did the families who engaged Smetana to stay in Göteborg for five years. This project will make a survey of music life in Göteborg during the earlier half of the 19th century and connect the earlier period explored by Jan Ling - the latter half of the 18th century, especially Patrik Alströmer - with the latter half of the 19th century, explored earlier and published by Anders Carlsson in 1996.