From My Life, the autobiography of the famed music critic Eduard Hanslick, appeared toward the end of his life, in 1894, when it went through three printings. It was republished in 1911, and again, more recently, in 1987, by Barenreiter, and in 2011, by Taschenbuch. Born in Prague, Hanslick studied piano with Tomaschek, and though, like other compatriots and contemporaries, he studied law and became a government functionary, he went on to become the most noted and honored music critic in nineteenth-century Vienna, making his mark with his relatively brief disquisition On the Musically Beautiful, first issued in 1854. In the Brahms-Wagner controversy, he was on the side of the former, and was the target of Wagner's vicious anti-semitism, even though he had been among the first to champion Wagner's work in Vienna. His long and informative autobiography has never appeared in complete translation to English or any other language.

About the Author

Tom Moore holds degrees in music from Harvard and Stanford and studied traverso with Sandra Miller. He is presently head of the sound & image department of the Green Library, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

Book Information
ISBN 9781538172407
Author Tom Moore
Format Hardback
Page Count 456
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 803g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 161mm * 32mm