Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we he… - Eduard Hanslick

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

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Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904) was a Bohemian-born musicologist.

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