Rascal Flatts - What Hurts The Most (Chorus)

HANSLIK, Hanslick (Hanslick) Eduard (11 IX 1825, Prague - 6 VIII 1904, Baden, near Vienna) - Austrian musicologist. He was engaged in the theory of music and playing the php. at V. Ya. Tomashek. He studied at the Law Faculty of Prague, and then Vienna University. Since 1846 he performed as a musician. critic, collaborated in various organs of the Vienna periodical. Since 1861, professor at the University of Vienna in theory and history of music. He gave public lectures on music in many. cities of Austria, Czech Republic, Germany. Widely known for aesthetics. G.'s work “On the Musically Beautiful” (1st ed. 1854, Leipzig), which is sharply polemic. character and directed ch. arr. against the romantic. aesthetics. At the same time G. criticized the position of the theory of affects and the views of the French. Enlightenment, who considered the determining beginning of the muses. expressiveness of intonation of human speech. This criticism was conducted by G. with a reactionary formalistic.positions. In the main The provisions of his work G. relied on the views of I.F. Herbart, proceeding from the philosophy of I. Kant. G. opposed music as a special form of spiritual activity to other forms of art.