Matthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He co-edited the volume Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook (2020), and has published articles on music aesthetics, as well as translations of key texts, ranging across the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries and from Germany to Bengal.

• Table of contents; Figures; Music examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Staging sentimentality; 2. The legacy of Rousseau; 3. The composer as genius; 4. Idealist aesthetics and the music critic; 5. Picturing the musical Absolute; 6. Between idealism and realism I: the French socialists; 7. Between idealism and realism II: after Hegel; 8. From Hanslick to the twentieth century; Conclusion: The fate of feeling; Bibliography.

Matthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He co-edited the volume Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook (2020), and has published articles on music aesthetics, as well as translations of key texts, ranging across the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries and from Germany to Bengal.

• Table of contents; Figures; Music examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Staging sentimentality; 2. The legacy of Rousseau; 3. The composer as genius; 4. Idealist aesthetics and the music critic; 5. Picturing the musical Absolute; 6. Between idealism and realism I: the French socialists; 7. Between idealism and realism II: after Hegel; 8. From Hanslick to the twentieth century; Conclusion: The fate of feeling; Bibliography.

Matthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He co-edited the volume Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook (2020), and has published articles on music aesthetics, as well as translations of key texts, ranging across the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries and from Germany to Bengal.

• Table of contents; Figures; Music examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Staging sentimentality; 2. The legacy of Rousseau; 3. The composer as genius; 4. Idealist aesthetics and the music critic; 5. Picturing the musical Absolute; 6. Between idealism and realism I: the French socialists; 7. Between idealism and realism II: after Hegel; 8. From Hanslick to the twentieth century; Conclusion: The fate of feeling; Bibliography.