Rigoletto

Men and women were both able to receive music education in the nineteenth century; however, men were usually trained to create music that could lead them to a career, while music was looked at as only a hobby for women. If one were to look only at the surface of the history of music in the nineteenth century, he or she would find that men mainly dominated the industry. Women were often discouraged from taking formal music lessons and it was even questioned at one point if music should be a part…