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Eduard Hanslick

1825 - 1904

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Eduard Hanslick (11 September 1825 – 6 August 1904) was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse from 1864 until the end of his life. His best known work, the 1854 treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (On the Musically Beautiful), was a landmark in the aesthetics of music and outlines much of his artistic and philosophical beliefs on music. Hanslick was a conservative critic and championed absolute music over programmatic music for much of his career. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eduard Hanslick is the 283rd most popular composer (up from 297th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 147th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Czech Composer.

Eduard Hanslick is most famous for his book "The Beautiful in Music" which was published in 1854. In this book, he argues that music is not just a form of entertainment but also has a moral and intellectual value.

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Among composers, Eduard Hanslick ranks 283 out of 1,451. Before him are Henryk Górecki, Anton Reicha, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, György Kurtág, Hanns Eisler, and Franz Xaver Gruber. After him are Anton Arensky, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Jacques Ibert, Reynaldo Hahn, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Clemens Krauss.

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Among people born in 1825, Eduard Hanslick ranks 13. Before him are Johann Jakob Balmer, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Charles Garnier, Charles Frederick Worth, Paul Kruger, and Henry Walter Bates. After him are Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Emil Erlenmeyer, Marie of Prussia, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Nubar Pasha, and Sher Ali Khan. Among people deceased in 1904, Eduard Hanslick ranks 22. Before him are Vasily Vereshchagin, Stepan Makarov, Paul Kruger, George, King of Saxony, Émile Gallé, and Lafcadio Hearn. After him are Étienne-Jules Marey, Vladimir Markovnikov, Sami Frashëri, Norodom of Cambodia, Mathilde Bonaparte, and Alfred von Waldersee.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Eduard Hanslick ranks 138 out of 1,200. Before him are Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), Alfred Brendel (1931), Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (932), Stanislav Grof (1931), Adalbert Stifter (1805), and Rudolf Slánský (1901). After him are G. W. Pabst (1885), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), Alfred Kubin (1877), Franz Benda (1709), Michael Czerny (1946), and Barbara Bouchet (1943).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Eduard Hanslick ranks 12. Before him are Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Johann Stamitz (1717), Josef Mysliveček (1737), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Suk (1874), and Anton Reicha (1770). After him are Franz Benda (1709), Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), Julius Fučík (1872), Georg Benda (1722), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), and Ignaz Moscheles (1794).

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