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Eduard Hanslick

Austrian musician and musicologist (1825-1904) · Musicians · Died at 78

Eduard Hanslick 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.

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His best known work, the 1854 treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen, was a landmark in the aesthetics of music and outlines much of his artistic and philosophical beliefs on music.

Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1825 to 1904 · aged 78