Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Music Examples x
5. List of Tables xiii
6. Notes on Contributors xiv
7. Acknowledgements xvii
8. Introduction 1
9. Part I. Concepts and Contexts
10. 1 Johanna Kinkel’s Social Life in Berlin (1836–39): Reflections on Historiographical Sources 13
11. 2 Accidental Aesthetics in the Salon: Amateurism and the Romantic Fragment in the Lied Sketches of Bettina von Arnim 27
12. 3 Salon Culture in the Circle of Joseph Joachim, or, Composing Inwardness: C. J. Arnold’s Quartettabend bei Bettina von Arnim Reconsidered 43
13. 4 Reading, Singing, Becoming: The Mädchenlieder of Paul Heyse and Johannes Brahms 65
14. Part II. Representations of the Salon
15. 5 Fridays with Malla: Musical Repertoire in the Swedish Salon of Malla Silfverstolpe 79
16. 6 Observing Musical Salon Culture in England c. 1800 through the Lens of the Caricature 95
17. 7 The Salon Singer as Subject of Satire in France during the July Monarchy 109
18. 8 The Instruments of the Vienna Biedermeier Salon: Diversity in Design, Sound and Technology 123
19. 9 Offenbach and the Representation of the Salon 139
20. 10 Affordances of the Piano: A Cinematic Representation of the Victorian Salon 153
21. Part III. Case Studies
22. 11 ‘Der Mensch ist zur Geselligkeit geboren’: Salon Culture, Night Thoughts and a Schubert Song 167
23. 12 Traditions, Preferences and Musical Taste in the Staegemann- Olfers Salon in Nineteenth-Century Berlin 185
24. 13 Josephine Lang and the Salon in Southern Germany 199
25. 14 Jessie Hillebrand and Musical Life in 1870s Florence 211
26. 15 An Invitation to 309 Beacon Street: Clara Kathleen Rogers and her Boston Salon 225
27. 16 ‘Too Much Playing Four Hands!’: Ernst von Dohnányi’s European Salon in the United States of the 1950s 239
28. Select Bibliography 255
29. Index 271