Nicole Grimes & Siobhán Donovan 
Rethinking Hanslick [EPUB ebook] 
Music, Formalism, and Expression

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.


Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression is the first extensive English-language study devoted to Eduard Hanslick–a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life. Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick’s contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of music and looks anew at his literary interests. The essays embrace ways of thinking about Hanslick’s writings that go beyond the polarities that have long marked discussion of his work such as form/expression, absolute/program music, objectivity/subjectivity, and formalist/hermeneutic criticism. This approach takes into consideration both Hanslick’s important
On the Musically Beautiful and his critical and autobiographical writings, demonstrating Hanslick’s rich insights into the context in which a musical work is composed, performed, and received.


Rethinking Hanslick serves as an invaluable companion to Hanslick’s prodigious scholarship and criticism, deepening our understanding of the major themes and ideas of one of the most influential music critics of the nineteenth century.


Contributors: David Brodbeck, James Deaville, Chantal Frankenbach, Lauren Freede, Marion Gerards, Dana Gooley, Nicole Grimes, David Kasunic, David Larkin, Fred Everett Maus, Timothy R. Mc Kinney, Nina Noeske, Anthony Pryer, Felix Wörner


Nicole Grimes is Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin (UCD) and the University of California, Irvine.

Siobhán Donovan is a college lecturer at the School of Languages and Literatures, UCD.

Wolfgang Marx is a senior lecturer at the School of Music, UCD.

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Introduction

Negotiating the ‘Absolute’: Hanslick’s Path through Musical History

Hanslick’s Composers

Hanslick, Legal Processes, and Scientific Methodologies: How Not to Construct an Ontology of Music

Otakar Hostinský, the Musically Beautiful, and the
Gesamtkunstwerk

Hanslick on Johann Strauss Jr.: Genre, Social Class, and Liberalism in Vienna

Waltzing 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 Goldmark

German Humanism, Liberalism, and Elegy in Hanslick’s Writings on Brahms

The 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 Century

Body and Soul, Content and Form: On Hanslick’s Use of the Organism Metaphor

Hanslick and Hugo Wolf

Battle Rejoined: Hanslick and the Symphonic Poem in the 1890s

On ‘Jewishness’ and Genre: Hanslick’s Reception of Gustav Mahler

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

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WOLFGANG MARX is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at University College Dublin. He is co-editor with Louise Duchesneau, of György Ligeti. Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds (Boydell Press, 2011) and with Nicole Grimes and Siobhán Donovan (eds), Rethinking Hanslick. Music, Formalism, and Expression(URP, 2013).