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Music Quotes by Eduard Hanslick
- 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…
- Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
- So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions…
- 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,…
- 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.
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