Adorno

In Search of a Career 103 was left to cope on its own with its Black Bottom and Yes, Sir, that’s my Baby. No sensation, then, fo ...

104 Part II: A Change of Scene letters to Berg he played down the whole episode, but it had bitter consequences for him neverthe ...

In Search of a Career 105 Why was Adorno interested in psychoanalysis, a discipline that was so very controversial at the time? ...

106 Part II: A Change of Scene patterns emerges most clearly, in Adorno’s view, in the policies of im- perialism and fascism. ‘W ...

In Search of a Career 107 that they are celebrated as divine services.’^42 Adorno took a certain malicious pleasure in mentionin ...

108 Part II: A Change of Scene various issues of the Musikblätter des Anbruch in 1928. One of these aphorisms may well have refl ...

In Search of a Career 109 jazz, through hit songs, to operetta. He proposed that such music should be discussed without condesce ...

110 Part II: A Change of Scene 8 Music Criticism and Compositional Practice Adorno’s intensive and sustained study of the writin ...

Music Criticism and Compositional Practice 111 The external appearance of the journal was changed for the first two sets of issu ...

112 Part II: A Change of Scene work is whatever manifests itself forcefully here and now, and destroys its deceptive appearances ...

Music Criticism and Compositional Practice 113 Beethoven. Nevertheless, we cannot speak of a retrograde step since ‘the musical ...

114 Part II: A Change of Scene broken off after only four bars. Following a powerfully articulated melodic middle section, the d ...

Music Criticism and Compositional Practice 115 and continued into old age. Taken together, there are no fewer than five song-cyc ...

116 Part II: A Change of Scene But if atonality were not to become obsolete in its turn, it would be necessary to practise a ‘fr ...

Music Criticism and Compositional Practice 117 opinion to light. Following the debate in Anbruch, which had led to the two contr ...

118 Part II: A Change of Scene audible as a technique and drew attention to itself. In the letter to Krenek on 29 October 1934, ...

Towards a Theory of Aesthetics 119 9 Towards a Theory of Aesthetics Learning the trade of composition and how to write scores wa ...

120 Part II: A Change of Scene early concert reviews and critiques of musical works, followed by his theoretical articles and mi ...

Towards a Theory of Aesthetics 121 from it. He wrote to Berg that he ‘could scarcely believe’ that ‘I have any real chance if an ...

122 Part II: A Change of Scene Viennese publisher did agree to a number of concessions to Adorno – they were obviously well awar ...