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”.
ITZHAK PERLMAN | TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO | EUGENE ORMANDY & PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
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