Talk:Eduard Hanslick

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[edit] Religious Background

According to the entry on Hanslick in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, his mother was Jewish. She converted to Catholicism upon marrying his father. I have thus corrected the prior statement of his religious background. 2006-12-10.

Thanks for the catch. You're correct; her father's name was Salomon Abraham Kisch and was definitely Jewish, and it's written up in the current online Grove. Antandrus (talk) 16:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First Sentence

The first sentence says:

Hanslick was born in Prague, the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslick, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a merchant from Vienna.

I cannot make heads or tails of the part where the piano pupils is mentioned. What is that supposed to mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.203.17.119 (talk) 05:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)