This book reconsiders the significance of the salon as a social and cultural phenomenon and as a source of artistic innovation and exchange in the long nineteenth century.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. ANJA BUNZEL holds a research position at the Czech Academy of Sciences. She gained her PhD in Musicology from Maynooth University and has published on Johanna Kinkel and nineteenth-century salon culture in both English and German. NATASHA LOGES is Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music, London. Her publications include Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall (Cambridge, 2014) and Brahms and his Poets (Boydell Press, 2017). She is a pianist, broadcaster and critic. Contributors: Maren Bagge, PéterBozó, Anja Bunzel, Katie A. Callam, Beatrix Darmstädter, Mary Anne Garnett, Harald Krebs, Clemens Kreutzfeldt, Veronika Kusz, Natasha Loges, Jennifer Ronyak, Kirsten Santos Rutschman, R. Larry Todd, Katharina Uhde, Michael Uhde, Harry White, Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger, Susan Youens

Introduction - Anja Bunzel and Natasha LogesJohanna Kinkel's Social Life in Berlin (1836-39): Reflections on Historiographical Sources - Anja BunzelAccidental Aesthetics in the Salon: Amateurism and the Romantic Fragment in the Lied Sketches of Bettina von Arnim - Jennifer RonyakSalon Culture in the Circle of Joseph Joachim, or, Composing Inwardness: C. J. Arnold's Quartettabend bei Bettina von Arnim Reconsidered - Katharina UhdeSalon Culture in the Circle of Joseph Joachim, or, Composing Inwardness: C. J. Arnold's Quartettabend bei Bettina von Arnim Reconsidered - R. Larry ToddReading, Singing, Becoming: The Mädchenlieder of Paul Heyse and Johannes Brahms - Natasha LogesFridays with Malla: Musical Repertoire in the Swedish Salon of Malla Silfverstolpe - Kirsten Santos RutschmanObserving Musical Salon Culture in England c. 1800 through the Lens of the Caricature - Maren BaggeObserving Musical Salon Culture in England c. 1800 through the Lens of the Caricature - Clemens KreutzfeldtThe Salon Singer as Subject of Satire during the July Monarchy - Mary Anne GarnettThe Instruments of the Vienna Biedermeier Salon: Diversity in Design, Sound, and Technology - Beatrix DarmstädterOffenbach and the Representation of the Salon - Péter BozóAffordances of the Piano: A Cinematic Representation of the Victorian Salon - Harry White'Der Mensch ist zur Geselligkeit geboren': Salon Culture, Night Thoughts, and a Schubert Song - Susan YouensTraditions, Preferences and Musical Taste in the Staegemann-Olfers Salon in Nineteenth-Century Berlin - Petra Wilhelmy-DollingerJosephine Lang and the Salon in Southern Germany - Harald KrebsJessie Hillebrand and Musical Life in 1870s Florence - Michael UhdeAn Invitation to 309 Beacon Street: Clara Kathleen Rogers and her Boston Salon - Katie A. Callam'Too Much Playing Four Hands!': Ernst von Dohnányi's European Salon in the United States of the 1950s - Veronika KuszSelect BibliographyIndex