The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

Quote by Eduard Hanslick

Schilling Koch A. J. Berlin 1875-1900
Eduard Hanslick "Aus meinem Leben" 2 vol.

Eduard Hanslick (11 September 1825 – 6 August 1904) was a German-Jewish music critic.