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.


Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (ed. Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1957)

Eduard Hanslick Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...