Adorno

The Danube Metropolis 83 part of Adorno’s life from his early youth, he continued to devote him- self to it for the time being a ...

84 Part II: A Change of Scene Kolisch Quartet in January 1927 in Vienna; and the Violin Concerto, which he dedicated to the memo ...

The Danube Metropolis 85 according to Adorno, there was a certain affinity with Gustav Mahler’s symphonies, Berg’s will to const ...

86 Part II: A Change of Scene them in their proper light. From the outset he rejected the idea of a Schoenberg school whose writ ...

The Danube Metropolis 87 Ellen Delp, a black woman with a son who was said to be a communist, with whom he quickly formed a frie ...

88 Part II: A Change of Scene Quartet, op. 10, had been performed. There was a further scandal during a concert of the Academy f ...

The Danube Metropolis 89 facile answers, but always hit the nail on the head.’ In this way Adorno learned from Berg everything a ...

90 Part II: A Change of Scene plans, in a preliminary way, to produce a joint theory about the correct performance of a musical ...

The Danube Metropolis 91 unknown to the young German. Berg took him to a number of excellent restaurants which served the specia ...

92 Part II: A Change of Scene Mahler had a brief marriage with Walter Gropius before settling down with Franz Werfel. At any rat ...

The Danube Metropolis 93 the heading ‘A Jew Boy from Frankfurt’, he described how Helene Berg became very agitated and had done ...

94 Part II: A Change of Scene Benjamin, his acquaintance with Ernst Bloch, and even mentioned his Franco-Corsican background, to ...

In Search of a Career 95 7 In Search of a Career In mid-August Adorno left Vienna, initially to take a holiday in the Dolomites, ...

96 Part II: A Change of Scene there and had become immersed in a ‘philosophical battle’ in which they had been joined by Alfred ...

In Search of a Career 97 claims. However, now that he was back in Frankfurt, he sorely missed the collaboration with Berg: ‘It i ...

98 Part II: A Change of Scene believed that Adorno’s over-philosophical interpretations damaged his [Schoenberg’s] pioneering co ...

In Search of a Career 99 He had been told that he would have to obtain a qualification in law. Was this a genuine threat? It may ...

100 Part II: A Change of Scene the Worte ohne Lieder (Words without Songs). So these surrealist pieces are further evidence of h ...

In Search of a Career 101 critic. His task there was to maintain the position he had won and to extend it in Frankfurt and beyon ...

102 Part II: A Change of Scene to Georg Swarzenski, an outstanding connoisseur and protagonist of contemporary art. Under his di ...