How come the Dutch Republic and Swiss Confederacy never really were big players in the music scene despite being vastly wealthy?

So both of these countries had their formal independence in 1648 and both collapsed in the 1790s during the French invasion.

So, we have here about 150 years, right? In this period alone we saw the rise of Lully, Buxtehude, Fux, Corelli, Handel, Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Vivaldi, Mozart, Rameau, Piccinni, Gluck, etc.. etc...

Yet these composers all come from kingdoms or otherwise the famous republic of Venice.

Where was Holland and the old Swiss confederacy? The names of these countries were on everybody's lips in those days! The fame of the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch imports! The wealth of Switzerland!

In Holland from 1701 to 1747, there was no stadtholder, the country was ran by the prime minister and his clique. Over in the Old Swiss confederacy, there was no formal capital, no regal court full of splendour, etc...

Are these indeed the elements that make for the classical music scene to thrive in the late 1600s and 1700s?