maybe I don't use the words right, but go to each of their wikipedia pages and search for the word "court". You will see that Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven depend

maybe I don't use the words right, but go to each of their wikipedia pages and search for the word "court". You will see that Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven depended much more heavily on the favor of the various noble courts, while Chopin and the later Brahms were more commercial (not in a bad way, just in a historical way)