In 1793, four years after the start of the French Revolution, the Rhineland experienced the calm before the storm. The close proximity of castle and convent also represented the co-existence and cooperation of throne and altar in the old Empire. The Elector, too, was both a secular and a clerical ruler.

Elector Max Franz, however, was open to the ideas of the Enlightenment. This was reflected in the cultural life of his Bonn residence. Being the piano teacher of court aristocrats, Beethoven often played in their houses in the surrounding region. For him, commoners and aristocracy were on equal footing. He wanted there to be "only human beings".

But the break with the old system destroyed the basis of Beethoven's existence. The Elector was ousted when the French occupied Bonn in 1794 and the Court Orchestra was disbanded.

In 1793, four years after the beginning of the French Revolution, calm prevailed in France before the Revolution. The contiguity of the château and the monastery once again illustrated the cohabitation and cooperation of the trône and the autel during the Ancien Empire. Le prince-électeur était lui aussi souverain temporel et spirituel.

Le prince-électeur Max Franz était entretemps ouvert aux idées des Lumières, ce qui se ressentait dans la vie culturelle de Bonn. Professeur de piano de la noblesse de la cour, Beethoven often played in their residences avoisinantes. For him, the citizens and the nobles were on an equal footing. He wanted there to be "more than human beings".

The rupture with the old system, however, deprived him of his means of subsistence. Le prince-électeur fut chassé lors de l'occupation de Bonn par les Français en 1794. La Chapelle de la Cour fut dissolue.