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Eduard Hanslick
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- Born
- 1825
- Died
- 1904
- Works
- 91
Top works
- Briefe von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy an Aloys Fuchs
- Aus dem Opernleben der Gegenwart
- Wer ist musikalisch?
- Musikalische Stationen
- Du beau dans la musique
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1825
- Active to
- 1904
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Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1825–1904
- Nationality
- AT, NF, DE
- Role / Field
- Musicologists, Music critics, Aestheticians, Profesores, Musicologos, Music
- Language
- ger, deu
- Gender
- Male
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1825-09-11 ) 11 September 1825, Prague , Bohemia , Austrian Empire
- Died
- 6 August 1904 (1904-08-06) (aged 78), Baden , Austria-Hungary
- Occupations
- Music critic aesthetician historian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eduard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria–Hungary
- Place of birth
- Prague
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Occupation
- opinion journalist
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Employer
- University of Vienna
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Student of
- Václav Tomášek
- Image
- Hanslick.jpg
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- Commons category
- Eduard Hanslick
- date of birth
- 1825-01-01
- date of death
- 1904-01-01
- name in native language
- Eduard Hanslick
- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- Commons gallery
- Eduard Hanslick
- student
- Yevsevii Mandychesvky
- writing language
- German
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Eduard Hanslick, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Eduard Hanslick (11 September 1825 – 6 August 1904) was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse from 1864 until the end of his life. His best known work, the 1854 treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (On the Musically Beautiful), was a landmark in the aesthetics of music and outlines much of his artistic and philosophical beliefs on music.
Hanslick was a conservative critic and championed absolute music over programmatic music for much of his career. As such, he sided with and promoted the faction of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms in the so-called "War of the Romantics", often deriding the works of composers such as Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner.
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