Eduard Hanslick Libri

Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful, written and published before the author turned 30, is a watershed document in the history of aesthetics, and of thought about music generally. The notion of "absolute music," which lies at the heart of the treatise, is now more than ever at the center of discussions about music, particularly that of the Classic and Romantic eras. Rothfarb and Landerer's translation includes three introductory essays offering fresh perspectives on Hanslick, and on the origins, publications, and translation history of his treatise, as well as its central concepts and philosophical underpinnings. The volume also includes thorough annotations, a readers' guide, a glossary of important terms and concepts, and an appendix, which comprises the original opening of Chapter 1, substantially rewritten in subsequent editions, as well as the original ending of the treatise that was excised by Hanslick in later editions. The book's ideas, cogently and often wittily expressed, are mandatory reading for anyone interested in eighteenth and nineteenth-century music and its cultural and intellectual background

Offers insights into both the disciplines of music and philosophy.

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1891. Not illustrated. ... CHAPTER IV. Though, in our opinion, thejcJusLandJundameixtal task of musical, aesthetics consists jn^subordinating ^ jthe s_upremacy, usurped, by-the feel ings^..tQ_the^legitimate one ojlheauty--since the organ of pure contemplation, from which, and for the sake of which, the truly beautiful flows, is not our emotional, but our imaginative facultyj--yet the positive phenomena of the emotions play too striking and important a part in our musical life to admit of the question being settled by simply effecting this subordination. However strictly an aesthetic analysis ought to be confined to the work_of «rt ifg&lf, we should always remember that the lat^jSr^^cfonstitutes the link between two living factors; the whence and the whither; in other words, between the composer and the listener, in whose mTnaT~the workings of the imagination are never so pure and unalloyed as the finished work itself represents them. II Their imagina- . tion, on the contrary, is most intimately associated with feelings and sensations. The feelings, therefore, are of importance both before and after the completion of the work; in respect of the composer first, and the listener afterwards, and this we dare not ignore. Let us consider the composer. . During the act of composing he is in that exalted state of mind without which it seems impossible to raise the beautiful from the deep well of the imagination. That this exalted state of mind will, ^..con;:. ,: t .. poser's idiosyncrasy, tako ine :..frr ,v ort ..i'".. .h': powers of artistic inventin ; that r..i.r :.'.; again is at least as essertL' u . these are well-known princip^ef. of *ij C 'VV; ...

Eduard Hanslick gilt als ein bedeutender österreichischer Musikästhetiker und Musikkritiker, dessen Einfluss auf die Musikwelt seiner Zeit weitreichend war. Seine Theorien und Kritiken prägten das Verständnis von Musik und Ästhetik und trugen zur Entwicklung der Musikanalyse bei. Hanslicks Arbeiten bieten tiefgehende Einblicke in die musikalische Wahrnehmung und die Rolle der Musik in der Gesellschaft, was ihn zu einer zentralen Figur in der Musikgeschichte macht.

Die Sammlung bietet einen Einblick in die musikalische Welt des späten 19. Jahrhunderts durch Kritiken und persönliche Schilderungen. Sie reflektiert die zeitgenössischen Strömungen und Entwicklungen in der Musikszene und beleuchtet die kulturellen Kontexte, die das musikalische Leben prägten. Der Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1899 ermöglicht es, historische Perspektiven und die Meinungen eines damaligen Publikums nachzuvollziehen.

Der Nachdruck von 1889 bietet eine Sammlung von Kritiken und Schilderungen, die sich mit musikalischen und literarischen Themen auseinandersetzen. Der Band vereint tiefgehende Analysen und persönliche Eindrücke, die einen Einblick in die kulturellen Strömungen der damaligen Zeit geben. Die Texte sind geprägt von einem historischen Blickwinkel und reflektieren die Ästhetik sowie die gesellschaftlichen Kontexte der Musik und Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.