With independence, the Republic of Macedonia has undergone radical changes in political and socio-economic system. As underdeveloped country, it faced numerous problems especially in the financial sector. The one-party system transformed to pluralism and the planned economy inherited from socialism was the cause of reduced efficiency in management and economy of available production and developmental factors. We were interested in the reflection of this situation on the non-economic activities, specifically musical culture. We focused on the impact of the economic aspects on motivation of the composers as a key factor in the creation of new works in the artistic music. For this purpose, we prepared models that served as a basis for reflecting the behavior of the composers in the new economic conditions. The two key categories significant for the phenomena explored were revenues of the authors that created actively in the period 1991/2001 and the expenditures for performing of the works. We noted 22 authors who produced 203 works during this decade, predominantly chamber works, up to 20 minutes long. 40% of works are orders paid from SOCOM (Composers Association of Macedonia) and for the needs of festival event. From the economic point of view, the most profitable are chamber works because of the greater opportunity for broadcast in the media, and thus achieving the royalties. From the expenditures for a performance, most are relating to the performers and television recording. The huge difference between revenues and expenditures for one work indicates that the authors can not be adequately paid for the use of their resources, which predictably results in very low offer. Hence, economic determinants are crucial factors in the production of art music, because revenues they can accomplish by composing new works are very small.