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 beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
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… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
