Anja Bunzel & Natasha Loges 
Musical Salon Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century 

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 Ph D 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, Péter Bozó, 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

Daftar Isi

Introduction – Anja Bunzel and Natasha Loges

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

Accidental Aesthetics in the Salon: Amateurism and the Romantic Fragment in the Lied Sketches of Bettina von Arnim – Jennifer Ronyak

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

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

Reading, Singing, Becoming: The
Mädchenlieder of Paul Heyse and Johannes Brahms – Natasha Loges

Fridays with Malla: Musical Repertoire in the Swedish Salon of Malla Silfverstolpe – Kirsten Santos Rutschman

Observing Musical Salon Culture in England c. 1800 through the Lens of the Caricature – Maren Bagge

Observing Musical Salon Culture in England c. 1800 through the Lens of the Caricature – Clemens Kreutzfeldt

The Salon Singer as Subject of Satire during the July Monarchy – Mary Anne Garnett

The Instruments of the Vienna Biedermeier Salon: Diversity in Design, Sound, and Technology – Beatrix Darmstädter

Offenbach and the Representation of the Salon – Péter Bozó

Affordances 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 Youens

Traditions, Preferences and Musical Taste in the Staegemann-Olfers Salon in Nineteenth-Century Berlin – Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger

Josephine Lang and the Salon in Southern Germany – Harald Krebs

Jessie Hillebrand and Musical Life in 1870s Florence – Michael Uhde

An 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 Kusz

Select Bibliography

Index

Tentang Penulis

NATASHA LOGES is Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music and has co-edited Brahms in the home and the concert hall: Between private and public performance and contributed to the Cambridge History of Musical Performance and is currently co-editing Johannes Brahms in Context. As a song accompanist, she has performed in various venues overseas and in the UK.