PRODUCTION OF SERBIAN SALON MUSIC IN THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BIRTH OF MUSIC PUBLISHING
PRODUCTION OF SERBIAN SALON MUSIC IN THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BIRTH OF MUSIC PUBLISHING

Summary/Abstract: Until mid-19th century in Serbia only some musical pieces were published by foreign publishers. The first collections of Serbian folk songs and dances were published in mid-19th century in Vienna by Alojz Kalauz and then by Kornelije Stanković. The widow of the Vienna music publisher Heinrich Friedrich Müller printed salon dances for the piano, while the piano compositions of Kornelije Stanković were published with renowned Vienna publishers Pietro Mechetti and Gustav Albrecht. Until the 1870s composers mainly published their own works, either through self-financing or with the help of patrons. The appearance of “publishing bookshops” brought about a change in the placing of books on the market. Brothers Kamenko and Pavle Jovanović from Pančevo, as well as brothers Đorđe and Kirilo Popović from Novi Sad and Mita Stajić, who developed his business in Belgrade, greatly contributed to the development of Serbian bookshops and publishing, as well as to the printing of music sheets. The Serbian publishers’ issuance of music sheets publicized salon music prominently, which was a consequence of increased demand for note editions intended for home performances. Salon music was published in various forms: single editions, albums, or as musical additions to journals. The influence of the Paris salon style arrived among the Serbs via Vienna and it included the visual aspect of music sheets. With some editions, special care was taken that the front page was visually attractive. Besides the front page, buyers were strongly influenced by the title of the composition, which was often in French. Foreign lithographers (e.g. J. Eberle from Vienna and Engelmann and Mühlberg from Leipzig) were mostly hired for reproducing and printing front pages of musical editions.

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