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Eduard Hanslick was a German music critic and theorist, known for his strong defense of absolute music and for shaping music criticism in the 19th century. His writings and critiques helped establish music as a serious intellectual pursuit, and his ideas continue to influence music criticism today. Hanslick's work reminds us of the importance of thoughtful analysis in understanding art, encouraging future generations to explore and appreciate music with depth and insight.
"The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens."
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"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination."
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"Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly."
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