Salon music

Many popular composers wrote at least a few pieces which fall into the category of salon music. Some pianists composed only salon music, but many of these specialists have become highly obscure. The following is a list of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century composers in whose work salon music was predominant. • Franz Behr • Carl Bohm • Mélanie Bonis • Georges Boulanger (violinist) • Teresa Carreño • Ignacio Cervantes • Emmanuel Chabrier • Cécile Chaminade • Frédéric Chopin • Charles Delioux • Benjamin Godard • Louis Moreau Gottschalk • Alphonse Hasselmans • Fanny Hensel • Henri Herz • Jean-Chrisostome Hess • Rudolph G. Kopp • Théodore Lack • Georges Lamothe • Gustav Lange • Désiré Magnus • Jules Massenet • Ignaz Moscheles • Moritz Moszkowski • Charles Oberthür • Joseph O'Kelly • Georges Pfeiffer • Auguste Pilati • Juventino Rosas • Julius Schulhoff • Martinus Sieveking • Sydney Smith • Maria Szymanowska • Sigismond Thalberg • Francis Thomé • Francesco Paolo Tosti • Paul Wachs • Ethelbert Nevin • Francisco Tárrega • Fritz Kreisler ==Well known performers==

• Adolf Busch • Fritz Busch • Pablo Casals • Emanuel Feuermann • Jascha Heifetz • Paul Hindemith • Fritz Kreisler • Pablo Sarasate • Rudolf Serkin • Jacques Thibaud ==References==