Rethinking Hanslick

Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, Wolfgang Marx

An innovative and incisive reassessment of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life, through a fresh consideration of his aesthetic, critical, and autobiographical writings.

IntroductionNegotiating the "Absolute": Hanslick's Path through Musical HistoryHanslick's ComposersHanslick, Legal Processes, and Scientific Methodologies: How Not to Construct an Ontology of MusicOtakar Hostinský, the Musically Beautiful, and the GesamtkunstwerkHanslick on Johann Strauss Jr.: Genre, Social Class, and Liberalism in ViennaWaltzing around the Musically Beautiful: Listening and Dancing in Hanslick's Hierarchy of Musical Perception"Poison-Flaming Flowers from the Orient and Nightingales from Bayreuth": On Hanslick's Reception of the Music of GoldmarkGerman Humanism, Liberalism, and Elegy in Hanslick's Writings on BrahmsThe Critic as Subject: Hanslick's Aus meinem Leben as a Reflection on Culture and Identity"Faust und Hamlet in Einer Person": The Musical Writings of Eduard Hanslick as Part of the Gender Discourse in the Late Nineteenth CenturyBody and Soul, Content and Form: On Hanslick's Use of the Organism MetaphorHanslick and Hugo WolfBattle Rejoined: Hanslick and the Symphonic Poem in the 1890sOn "Jewishness" and Genre: Hanslick's Reception of Gustav MahlerSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex