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Salon music is a category of Western classical music cultivated in 19th-century Europe and intended primarily for performance in private domestic and social gatherings known as salons, rather than in
The Recital by the Spanish artist Luis Jiménez Aranda (1845–1928.) Depicts a social gathering for music, like that of a musical salon.
Salon (gathering)
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A salon is a gathering of people held by a host. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate". Salons in the tradition of the
Salon music
…of Western classical music cultivated in 19th-century Europe and intended primarily for performance in private domestic and social gatherings known as salons, rather than in public concert halls. Most often written for solo piano or for piano with one other instrument, the genre is broadly defined by short…
Réunion de dames, Abraham Bosse, 17th century
Fészek salon in the 1930'
"Abbé Delille reciting his poem, La Conversation in the salon of Madame Geoffrin" from Jacques Delille, "La Conversation" (Paris, 1812)
Portrait of Mme Geoffrin, salonnière, by Marianne Loir (National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC)