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Johann 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, 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, Clemens Kreutzfeldt -- The salon singer as subject of satire in France 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 -- "To much playing four hands!": Ernst von Dohnányi's European salon in the United states of the 1950s / Veronika Kusz

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