Eduard Hanslick [SEP] date of death
Eduard Hanslick
Eduard Hanslick (11 September 18256 August 1904) was a German Bohemian music critic.
Biography.
Hanslick was born in Prague (then in the Austrian Empire), the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslik, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a Jewish merchant from Vienna. At the age of eighteen Hanslick went to study music with Václav Tomášek, one of Prague's renowned musicians. He also studied law at Prague University and
he appeared at Her Majesty's in "Faust" and was especially complimented for the dramatic instinct of Faust's soliloquy in Act I and the superb energy of the duet with Mephistopheles which closes the Act. Reeves's reviewer in this role remarks on the fine condition of his voice at this date. Although the critic Eduard Hanslick was "told" that the voice had already 'gone' in 1862, Herman Klein thought that it was still in its prime in 1866: 'a more exquisite illustration of what is termed the