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Romanians
gave up the Oriental style and fashion and quickly adopted Western fashions
radically changing their dressing style and the interior decorations of their
homes.
Women
quickly embraced the Western trends and proved to be the main promoters of
these changes in the Romanian society. Furthermore, the change in mentalities
allowed women to get more involved in social activities destined for children
and not only. So, in the first half of the 19th century children
benefitted from improved education and standard of living in comparison to the
previous generations. Well-off families in the aforementioned principalities started
hiring German, English or French tutors for their children, which replaced the
previous Greek private teachers they used to have. Bourgeois families in these
two regions inhabited by Romanians had their own approach in the education of
their offspring. Here is now at the microphone Nicoleta Roman, researcher with
the Nicolae Iorga Institut
In 1846, pianist and composer Franz Liszt, already a world celebrity at that point, started his last grand European tour in the southeast of the continent. He held recitals in many cities, among them Vienna, Sibiu, Bucharest, Iasi, Cernauti, Istanbul, and finally Odessa, wrapping up his tour in Czarist Russia. In December 1846, he landed in Bucharest, the capital of Wallachia, where he was hosted by the grand boyar Mihai Ghica. In January 1847 he held a recital in the palace of Prince Gheorghe Bibescu. In Bucharest, the cosmopolitan musician found a special kind of society, hospitable and curious, which was still navigating the dividing line between the Orient that had been the basis of local culture, and the West, whose ways the local elites were starting to adopt. The elites, meaning the old nobility and the nascent bourgeoisie, had started to modernize, and their children were already Western educated, and were starting to be seen as individuals, not simply miniature inheritors of t