!!!Hanslick, Eduard

b. Prague (Czech Republic), Sept. 11, 1825, 
d. Baden (Lower Austria), Aug. 6, 1904, very influential music critic 
in Vienna, aesthetician and musicologist; from 1856 lecturer, from 
1861 university professor of aesthetics and music history in Vienna 
(1st professor of music at the university following its reform in 
16th century). In his opinion music in classical and neo-classical 
style (W. A.  Mozart, L. van  Beethoven, R. Schumann, J.  
Brahms) was the climax of musical development and he disapproved of 
music in Neo-German style.

!Works
Vom Musikalisch-Schoenen, 1854; Geschichte des Konzertwesens in 
Wien, 2 vols., 1869/70; Aus meinem Leben, 1894. - Edition: Saemtl. 
Schriften, hist.-krit. Ausgabe, ed. by D. Strauss, 1993ff.

!Literature
D. Glatt, Zur geschichtl. Bedeutung der Musikaesthetik 
E. H., 1972; W. Abegg, Musikaesthetik und Musikkritik bei 
E. H., 1974; NDB.



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