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Legendary German-Bohemian Music Critic Eduard Hanslick Born On This Day in 1825 [ON-THIS-DAY]

By The Violin Channel

September 11, 2019

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Legendary German-Bohemian music critic Eduard Hanslick was born on this day in 1825

Legendary German-Bohemian music critic Eduard Hanslick was born on this day in 1825.

Notoriously conservative, he was an outspoken opponent of the works of both Liszt and Wagner - and infamously, at its premiere, declared the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto put the audience "through hell ... ' with music "... which stinks to the ear".

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