2009/01/01 by David Brodbeck · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Art #Central European national history #Czech #European Cultural and National Identity #German #History #Linguistics #Literature #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1080/14716930902809114
openalex publication_date 2009/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
This article examines the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick's reception of the music of Bedřich Smetana during the 1880s and 1890s. In three case studies, it suggests that the critic's reviews are best understood in terms not of Smetana's Czech nationalism, but of Hanslick's German liberalism, and of the critic's memories of the youthful background he shared with Smetana in German-speaking yet nationally indifferent Vormärz Prague.