Musical Salon Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

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This collection explores the idea of music in the salon during the long nineteenth century, both as a socio-cultural phenomenon, and as a source of artistic innovation and exchange. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly approaches, this book uses the idea of the salon as a springboard to examine issues such as gender, religion, biography and performance; to explore the ways in which the salon was represented in different media; and to showcase the heterogeneity of the salon through a selection of case studies. It offers fresh considerations of familiar salons in large cultural centres, as well as insights into lesser-known salons in both Europe and the United States. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the collection underscores the enduring impact of the European musical salon. Frontcover Contents List of Illustrations List of Music Examples List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Concepts and Contexts 1 Johanna Kinkel’s Social Life in Berlin (1836–39): Reflections on
Historiographical Sources 2 Accidental Aesthetics in the Salon: Amateurism and the Romantic
Fragment in the Lied Sketches of Bettina von Arnim 3 Salon Culture in the Circle of Joseph Joachim, or, Composing
Inwardness: C. J. Arnold’s Quartettabend bei Bettina von Arnim
Reconsidered 4 Reading, Singing, Becoming: The Mädchenlieder of Paul Heyse and
Johannes Brahms Part II Representations of the Salon 5 Fridays with Malla: Musical Repertoire in the Swedish Salon of
Malla Silfverstolpe 6 Observing Musical Salon Culture in England c. 1800 through the
Lens of the Caricature 7 The Salon Singer as Subject of Satire in France during the
July Monarchy 8 The Instruments of the Vienna Biedermeier Salon:
Diversity in Design, Sound and Technology 9 Offenbach and the Representation of the Salon 10 Affordances of the Piano: A Cinematic Representation of the
Victorian Salon Part III Case Studies 11 ‘Der Mensch ist zur Geselligkeit geboren’: Salon Culture,
Night Thoughts and a Schubert Song 12 Traditions, Preferences and Musical Taste in the Staegemann-
Olfers Salon in Nineteenth-Century Berlin 13 Josephine Lang and the Salon in Southern Germany 14 Jessie Hillebrand and Musical Life in 1870s Florence 15 An Invitation to 309 Beacon Street: Clara Kathleen Rogers and
her Boston Salon 16 ‘Too Much Playing Four Hands!’: Ernst von Dohnányi’s European
Salon in the United States of the 1950s Select Bibliography Index