Richard Pennycuick wrote:
>Somewhere I have a book of C19 criticism by Eduard Hanslick, spectacularly
>humourless and reactionary, seemed to have savaged just about every piece
>of music he ever heard. Conceivably the original flamer.
He liked Josef Lanner, preferred him to both father and son Strauss.
Apparently liked a slow Laendler better than a sprightly waltz.
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