Vienna's golden years of music, 1850-1900 / Eduard Hanslick ; translated and edited by Henry Plesants III.
| Author/creator | Hanslick, Eduard |
| Other author | Pleasants, Henry translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Simon and Schuster, [1950] |
| Description | xxvi, 341 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Works. Selections. English |
| Series | Essay index reprint series Essay index reprint series. ^A237646 |
| Contents | Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) -- Tannhäuser (1846) -- Vieuxtemps (1854) -- Clara Schumann (1856) -- Liszt's symphonc poems (1857) -- Lohengrin (1858) -- Ole Bull (1858) -- Beethoven's Missa Solemnis (1861) -- Joseph Joachim (1861) -- Brahms (1862) -- The 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' Symphony No. 1 (1876) -- Richard Wagner's stage festival in Bayreuth (1876) -- Brahms' Symphony No. 2 (1878) -- Verdi's Requiem (1879) -- Adelina Patti (1979) -- Bülow (1881) -- Parsifal (letters from Bayreuth, 1882) -- Wagner's death, February 13, 1883 -- Brahms' Symphony No. 3 (1883) -- Tristan and Isolde (1883) -- Rubinstein (1884) -- The Meiningen Court Orchestra (1884) -- Rosenthal (1884) -- Lilli Lehmann (1885) -- Brahms' Symphony No. 4 (1886) -- Verdi's Otello (1887) -- Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1892) -- Richard Strauss's Don Juan (1892) -- Richard Strauss's Tod und Verklärung (1893) -- Hansel and Gretel (1894) -- Tchaikovsky's Symphonie Pathétique (1895) -- Johann Strauss (1899) -- The Wagnerites. |
| Abstract | In musical history, Hanslick has popularly come down as a bigoted reactionary who never could or would understand the magnificence of Wagner. Here for the first time in English one can get a corrected impression. The reader discovers that Hanslick far from being a reactionary was way ahead of his time; that his opinions and analyses for the most part are as valid and exciting today as they ever were; and that there is no music criticism more delightful to read for its learning, wit and authority. |
| General note | A selection of Eduard Hanslick's reviews and essays. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 51001320 |
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