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
