This article explores biographical processes of aesthetic formation. It focuses on the difficulty to balance external expectations and individual development of creativity and presents a case study of a female musician called Caroline, which has been analysed with focus on the biographical circumstances of professionalizing in music using the biographical approach of Fritz Schütze. By reconstructing the biographical formation of Caroline the creative metamorphoses (kreative Wandlung) proved to be the most important structural process. Caroline’s life history shows a limited artistic metamorphoses after a longer period of heteronomy due to inherited schemes of behaviour of her family.