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On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.

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Eduard Hanslick
Age: 78 †
Born: 1825
Born: September 11
Died: 1904
Died: August 6
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