Music room
As a music room private rooms are called after the acoustic, artistic and - if available - instrumental facilities serve the sole purpose of instrumentalists or singers to allow the music or lectures, even in public. What is significant here is the musical activity in a non-public setting.
historical development
Stéphanie de Beauharnais had the music room in Mannheim Palace furnished in the style of the late Empire . After the Congress of Vienna (1815), house music and house concerts enjoyed increasing popularity in the courtly and bourgeois salons of the Biedermeier period . Musical instruments such as the grand piano became a status symbol that was no longer reserved for aristocratic circles. The music rooms of this time were artistically lavishly designed: The “Graue Stube” in the Goethehaus Frankfurt has a stucco ceiling from which musical instruments are sculpted. Keyboard instruments , seating and, for example, flute cases were part of the furnishing of music rooms.
Piano room is a modified name.
Book title
- The novella Jalsaghar by the Indian writer Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay was filmed in 1958 by Satyajit Ray under the same title (Eng. The Music Room ).
- Diedrich Diederichsen : Music room - avant-garde and everyday life . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005