Rethinking Hanslick

SIOBHÁN DONOVAN is Lecturer in German Studies at University College Dublin. WOLFGANG MARX is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at University College Dublin. He is co-editor with Louise Duchesneau, of György Ligeti. Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds (Boydell Press, 2011) and with Nicole Grimes and Siobhán Donovan (eds), Rethinking Hanslick. Music, Formalism, and Expression(URP, 2013).

• IntroductionNegotiating the "Absolute": Hanslick's Path through Musical HistoryHanslick's ComposersHanslick, Legal Processes, and Scientific Methodologies: How Not to Construct an Ontology of MusicOtakar Hostinský, the Musically Beautiful, and the GesamtkunstwerkHanslick on Johann Strauss Jr.: Genre, Social Class, and Liberalism in ViennaWaltzing 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 GoldmarkGerman Humanism, Liberalism, and Elegy in Hanslick's Writings on BrahmsThe 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 CenturyBody and Soul, Content and Form: On Hanslick's Use of the Organism MetaphorHanslick and Hugo WolfBattle Rejoined: Hanslick and the Symphonic Poem in the 1890sOn "Jewishness" and Genre: Hanslick's Reception of Gustav MahlerSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

This Rethinking is timely . . . exploring the tension between Hanslick's ceaselessly revised treatise On the Musically Beautiful and his work as a practicing music critic.