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Eduard Hanslick on Music

d. 1904

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) "Nightmarish hangover style" (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)

[Music is] a language which we speak and understand but cannot translate

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