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 On 9 November 1835 he instituted, with Henry Blagrove and others, the 'Concerti da Camera,' a chamber music organisation. In 1838 he visited the Continent, played at Vienna, Munich, Homburg, and other places, and made the acquaintance of Schumann, of Mozart's widow and son, of Thalberg, and of Czerny. At Mainz he pubhshed his popular pianoforte romance, 'Cloelia.' From 1846 to 1848 he resided in Rome, conducting Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 for the first time there and composing his 'Saltarello' and several songs with Italian words. He was elected an honorary member of the Academy of St. Cecilia. Returning to London, he resumed his teaching, and founded the first Amateur Choral Society in 1849. In 1855 he began a series of musically illustrated lectures in London and the provinces, taking as his first topic 'The History of the Pianoforte and its Precursors.' At the Polytechnic Institution (10 May 1855) he gave this lecture before Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children. In 1858 he founded the Musical Society of London, which lasted till 1868, and of which he was honorary secretary till 1865. In 1874 he was one of the founders of the Musical Association, and for three years its secretary and afterwards a vice-president. He gave his last concert in 1876 and soon retired from active work, but he maintained his vigour until near his death, in London, on 23 June 1901. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery at Golder's Green, Hendon. He married on 24 Dec. 1848 Frances Simon of Montego Bay, Jamaica, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Malcolm Charles Salaman, is well known as a dramatic and art critic.

Salaman's compositions are numerous, including songs and orchestral and pianoforte pieces. In his later years he made an annual custom of publishing a song on his birthday, and he wrote close on one hundred songs. The most famous is his beautiful setting of Shelley's 'I arise from dreams of thee,' written at Bath in 1836, when he was twenty-two, and published in an album called 'Six Songs' (1838). Some of his songs were written for Hebrew, Greek, and Latin words. A deeply religious man, he composed and arranged in 1858 the choral and organ music for the psalms and service of the synagogue of the Reformed Congregation of British Jews; some of his settings of the psalms were used as anthems in cathedrals. His literary ability was favourably shown in 'Jews as they are' (1882), in his published lectures, and in many articles contributed to the musical journals.

Among portraits of Salaman are a three-quarter length (oils) by his sister, Mrs. Julia Goodman, 1834, in the possession of Mr. Malcolm C. Salaman; a sketch, seated at piano (oils), by S. Starr, 1890, in the possession of Brandon Thomas; a marble medallion in high relief, by Girometti, Rome, 1847; and a lithograph, by R. J. Lane, A.R.A., after S. A. Hart, B.A., published in 1834.



SALAMAN, JULIA. [See (1812–1906), portrait painter.]

SALISBURY, third [See  (1830–1903), prime minister.]

SALMON, GEORGE (1819–1904), mathematician and divine, born at Cork on 25 Sept. 1819, was only son of Michael Salmon, linen merchant, by his wife Helen, daughter of the Rev. Edward Weekes. Of three sisters one, Eliza, married [q. v. Suppl. I], archdeacon of Stow. Salmon, after attending Mr. Porter's school in Cork, entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1833, where he had a brilliant career, winning a classical scholarship in 1837 and graduating as first mathematical moderator in 1838. He attended some divinity lectures in 1839, as scholars of the house were bound to do, and was persuaded to sit for a fellowship, without much preparation, in 1840. He obtained Madden's prize, i.e. was next in merit to the successful candidate, and in 1841 was elected fellow of the college, under the old system of public examination, conducted viva voce and in Latin, his general scholarship gaining him success at an earlier age than was customary.

Salmon settled down at once to the work of a college don (M.A. 1844), and was ordained deacon in 1844, and priest in 1845. His work was mainly mathematical, but in