Eduard Hanslick: Quotes about music

Eduard Hanslick was austrian musician and musicologist. Explore interesting quotes on music.

Eduard Hanslick: 14 quotes 0 likes

“The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.”

Eduard Hanslick

The Beautiful in Music (1854)

Beauty , Art , Music , Feeling

“That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.”

Eduard Hanslick

Quoted by Long Beach Opera Co. http://www.longbeachopera.org/index.php4?id=200403

Music , Effort

“(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) "Nightmarish hangover style" (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)”

Eduard Hanslick

From Norman Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes (1985, Sphere Books)

Music

“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.”

Eduard Hanslick

Eduard Hanslick, quoted by Wolfgang Sandberger (1996) in the liner notes to the Juilliard String Quartet's Intimate Letters. Sony Classical SK 66840.

Music

“Music means itself.”

Eduard Hanslick

The Beautiful in Music (1854)

Music