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The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
— Eduard Hanslick
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About Eduard Hanslick
Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904) was a Bohemian-born musicologist.
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