Eduard Hanslick

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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 indirectly.

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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Books about Eduard Hanslick

	Eduard Hanslick: Writings Part 2 (Schott Musikwissenschaft) by Dieter Strau Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	Musikasthetik und Musikkritik bei Eduard Hanslick (Studien zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts) by Werner Abegg Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	Hanslick on the Musically Beautiful: Sixteen Lectures on the Musical Aesthetics of Eduard Hanslick by Geoffrey Payzant Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment

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