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Eduard Hanslick
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Austrian musician and musicologist (1825–1904)

Also known as: Hanslick, Эдуард Ганслик, 에두아르트 한슬리크, エドゥアルト・ハンスリック, 爱德华·汉斯力克, Ганслик, Ханслик Эдуард

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Known works

  • Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (1854)
  • Music criticisms, 1846-99 (1963)
  • Was denken Sie von Wagner?
  • Vienna's golden years of music, 1850-1900 (1950)
  • Geschichte des concertwesens in Wien (1869)