Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

List of Music Examples

pp x-xii

List of Tables

pp xiii-xiii

Notes on Contributors

pp xiv-xvi

Acknowledgements

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Concepts and Contexts

pp 11-12

1 - Johanna Kinkel’s Social Life in Berlin (1836–39): Reflections on Historiographical Sources

pp 13-26

2 - Accidental Aesthetics in the Salon: Amateurism and the Romantic Fragment in the Lied Sketches of Bettina von Arnim

pp 27-42

3 - Salon Culture in the Circle of Joseph Joachim, or, Composing Inwardness: C. J. Arnold’s Quartettabend bei Bettina von Arnim Reconsidered

pp 43-64

4 - Reading, Singing, Becoming: The Mädchenlieder of Paul Heyse and Johannes Brahms

pp 65-76

Part II - Representations of the Salon

pp 77-78

5 - Fridays with Malla: Musical Repertoire in the Swedish Salon of Malla Silfverstolpe

pp 79-94

6 - Observing Musical Salon Culture in England c. 1800 through the Lens of the Caricature

pp 95-108

7 - The Salon Singer as Subject of Satire in France during the July Monarchy

pp 109-122

8 - The Instruments of the Vienna Biedermeier Salon: Diversity in Design, Sound and Technology

pp 123-138

9 - Offenbach and the Representation of the Salon

pp 139-152

10 - Affordances of the Piano: A Cinematic Representation of the Victorian Salon

pp 153-164

Part III - Case Studies

pp 165-166

11 - ‘Der Mensch ist zur Geselligkeit geboren’: Salon Culture, Night Thoughts and a Schubert Song

pp 167-184

12 - Traditions, Preferences and Musical Taste in the Staegemann-Olfers Salon in Nineteenth-Century Berlin

pp 185-198

13 - Josephine Lang and the Salon in Southern Germany

pp 199-210

14 - Jessie Hillebrand and Musical Life in 1870s Florence

pp 211-224

15 - An Invitation to 309 Beacon Street: Clara Kathleen Rogers and her Boston Salon

pp 225-238

16 - ‘Too Much Playing Four Hands!’: Ernst von Dohnányi’s European Salon in the United States of the 1950s

pp 239-254

Select Bibliography

pp 255-270

Index

pp 271-286