You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel. - Eduard Hanslick
The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
- Eduard Hanslick
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. - Eduard Hanslick
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. - Eduard Hanslick
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit … - Eduard Hanslick
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit …
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the b… - Eduard Hanslick
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the b…
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. - Eduard Hanslick
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings … - Eduard Hanslick
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings …
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable artic… - Eduard Hanslick
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable artic…
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are sa… - Eduard Hanslick
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are sa…
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