Music criticisms, 1846-99 / Eduard Hanslick ; translated and edited by Henry Pleasants.
| Author/creator | Hanslick, Eduard |
| Other author | Pleasants, Henry, editor, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Penguin Books, [1963. ©1950] |
| Description | 312 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Peregrine books ; Y32 Peregrine books ; Y32. ^A910594 |
| Contents | Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) -- Tannhäuser (1846) -- Vieuxtemps (1854) -- Clara Schumann (1856) -- Liszt's symphonic poems (1857) -- Lohengrin (1858) -- Ole bull (1858) -- Beethoven's Missa solemnis (1861) -- Joseph Joachim (1861) -- Brahms (1862) -- Messiah (1862) -- Tausig (1862) -- The St Matthew passion (1862) -- Schubert's 'Unfinished' symphony (1865) -- Richard Wagner's concert (1872) -- Franz Liszt (1874) -- Die Meistersinger (1874) -- Joseffy (1874) -- Brahms's Symphony no. I (1876) -- Richard Wagner's stage festival in Bayreuth (1876) -- Brahms's Symphony no. 2 (1878) -- Verdi's Requiem (1879) -- Adelima Patti (1879) -- Bulow (1881) -- Parsifal (letters from Bayreuth, July 1882) -- Brahms's Symphony no. 3 (1883) -- Tristan and Isolde (1883) -- Rubinstein (1884) -- Lilli Lehmann (1885) -- Brahms's Symphony no. 4 (1886) -- Letter from London (1886) -- Verdi's Otello (1887) -- Bruckner's Eighth symphony (1892) -- Richard Strauss's Don Juan (1892) -- Richard Strauss's Tod and Verklarung (1893) -- Hansel and Gretel (1894) -- Tchaikovsky's Symphonie pathetique (1895) -- Johann Strauss (1899). |
| Abstract | Although this is simply a selection of Eduard Hanslick's reviews and essays, the discerning reader will find elements of a drama unique in the history of music. It is no accident that Hanslick alone, of all Wagner's contemporary adversaries, is still remembered. Nietzsche, as a reformed Wagnerite, was an added starter, and his opposition hadn't the dignity of Hanslick's lifelong resistance to "the music of the future." Nor has Nietzsche today the distinction of serving as the historical example of the critical reactionary. To the best of the editor/translator?s knowledge, none of Hanslick?s reviews and essays (with the exception of the early "Beauty in Music"/"Vom Musikalisch-Schönen") had been published in English before this book. |
| Local note | Little-343454--305131056835/ |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 64000143 |
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