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Legitimate Admiration or Cultish Devotion?

A caricature from the March 15th edition of the Viennese satirical magazine Figaro, in which the music critic Eduard Hanslick burns incense before a statue in which St. John of Nepomuk has been replaced by Johannes Brahms. As the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse, the newspaper that was considered the arbiter of artistic culture in late 19th c…