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According to the entry on Hanslick in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, his mother was Jewish. She converted to Catholicism upon marrying his father. I have thus corrected the prior statement of his religious background. 2006-12-10.
The first sentence says:
Hanslick was born in Prague, the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslick, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a merchant from Vienna.
I cannot make heads or tails of the part where the piano pupils is mentioned. What is that supposed to mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.203.17.119 ( talk) 05:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
"By ending his list of theorists with Wagner, he makes his primary critical target obvious." Quotes by Wagner are added in the 6th (!) edition of VMS. Most scholars agree today, that Wagner´s music isn´t the initial target. This section should be revised, I guess... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.87.184 ( talk) 18:42, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Is there solid evidence they actually admired each other? According to "Brahms in the Priesthood of Art Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-century German Musical Imagination" , By Laurie McManus · 2021 , Page 134, "The argument that Brahms respected Wagner is based on selected anecdotes, as well as the mythologizing tendency to exempt Brahms from the now seemingly petty musical disputes of his day. Brahms biographer Max Kalbeck noted that “After Brahms's death, conciliatory obituary writers wanted to rebrand [umstempeln] him as a glowing admirer of Wagner and his music.”" Wikiwickedness ( talk) 21:29, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
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According to the entry on Hanslick in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, his mother was Jewish. She converted to Catholicism upon marrying his father. I have thus corrected the prior statement of his religious background. 2006-12-10.
The first sentence says:
Hanslick was born in Prague, the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslick, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a merchant from Vienna.
I cannot make heads or tails of the part where the piano pupils is mentioned. What is that supposed to mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.203.17.119 ( talk) 05:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
"By ending his list of theorists with Wagner, he makes his primary critical target obvious." Quotes by Wagner are added in the 6th (!) edition of VMS. Most scholars agree today, that Wagner´s music isn´t the initial target. This section should be revised, I guess... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.87.184 ( talk) 18:42, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Is there solid evidence they actually admired each other? According to "Brahms in the Priesthood of Art Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-century German Musical Imagination" , By Laurie McManus · 2021 , Page 134, "The argument that Brahms respected Wagner is based on selected anecdotes, as well as the mythologizing tendency to exempt Brahms from the now seemingly petty musical disputes of his day. Brahms biographer Max Kalbeck noted that “After Brahms's death, conciliatory obituary writers wanted to rebrand [umstempeln] him as a glowing admirer of Wagner and his music.”" Wikiwickedness ( talk) 21:29, 19 August 2023 (UTC)