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.

Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, Wolfgang Marx

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