An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Quote by Eduard Hanslick

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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false...

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false...

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and...

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and...

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not...

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not...