Salon music was as popular in Russia as across Europe and the States - and produced its own set of composers eager to create works to satisfy public demand. I discovered a Russian website that covers a number of these salon pieces:
http://www.starinnye-noty.ru/
- well worth a visit (you could probably use Google and get it to translate for you). I have posted some of the works to be found on that site that are a little more unusual and purely Russian (also includes some of the Prisovsky I posted last week). The vast majority of these composers and works are from the time period 1880 - 1914 (brief bios given where known).
Jules Nagel - St Petersburg pianist and composer. Wrote a large number of salon pieces often in collaboration with
Michael Steinberg (another prolific salon composer in St Petersburg).
Nagel J - 'Gandza' Polka-Song transcription.pdf
Sheinberg M - Egyptian Night from 'Cleopatra'.pdf
A Kulesza (Kuleshov) - bio ?
Kulesza A - Op 68 Ukrainian Cossack.pdf
L M Vigdorovich - salon composer based in Kiev.
Vigdorovich L - Op 64 Arabian Dance.pdf
Alexander Tsarsman (1873-1939) - danser at the Bolshoi Theatre who also composed a number of salon pieces often with dance moves printed alongside the music.
Tsarsman A - Ballroom Lezginka.pdf
Tsarsman A - 'Geisha' Salon Dance.pdf
Aleksandr Naumovich Tsfasman (1906-1971) Noted Soviet Jazz pianist, conductor and composer - previous pieces have been posted on Pianophilia. Here is one of his earliest pieces written when he was 20 years of age and studying at the conservatoire.
Tsfasman A - Savoy Blues.pdf
Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba (1833-1902). Ukrainian pianist, composer and teacher. Father to Sigizmund, brother to Nikolai Zaremba. Studied with Kocipiński in Kamenets-Podolsky, and then at the Lyiv Institute, where he later in 1862, returned to teach piano and voice. Best remembered for his songs and romances.
Zaremba V - Fantasie on an Ukrainian Song by Kryzhanovsky E.pdf