Notes to pp. 397– 402 587158 Adorno, ‘Vers une musique informelle’, Quasi una fantasia, p. 282f.
159 Adorno, Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link, p. 38.
160 The present writer has based this account on the research of Reinhard
Pabst. See Pabst, ‘Der Vogel, der da sang’, p. 16.
161 Adorno, ‘Amorbach’, GS, vol. 10.1, p. 303ff. (Neidhard von Reuental
was a Middle High German troubadour who lived in the first half of the
thirteenth century, until around 1230 [trans.].)
162 Ibid., p. 307. (Gottfried von Berlichingen was a robber baron from the
Peasants’ War of the 1520s. He was immortalized in Goethe’s play Götz
von Berlichingen (1773)[trans.].)
163 Adorno, ‘Wien, nach Ostern 1967’, GS, vol. 10.1, p. 426.
164 Adorno, Negative Dialectics, p. 373.
165 Lore Kramer has told the present author about these excursions to
Amorbach, which usually featured a good luncheon or dinner in a country
inn.
166 Adorno to Bührer, 31 January 1968, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main (Br 20/6).
167 See Christoph von Schwerin, Als sei nichts gewesen, p. 293. Having first
met Count Andreas Razumovsky in Vienna in 1955, he introduced him
to a pupil of his, Dorothea Princess zu Solms-Lich, the following year.
This meeting finally led to the marriage of the couple. (The present writer
is indebted to Dorothea Razumovsky for this information.)
168 Adorno, ‘Wien, nach Ostern 1967’, GS, vol. 10.1, p. 424.
169 Adorno, ‘Konzeption eines Wiener Operntheaters’, GS, vol. 19, p. 501.
170 Adorno, ‘Wien, nach Ostern 1967’, GS, vol. 10.1, p. 425.
171 Adorno, ‘Konzeption eines Wiener Operntheaters’, GS, vol. 19, p. 498.
172 Ibid., p. 499.
173 Adorno, ‘Wien, nach Ostern 1967’, GS, vol. 10.1, p. 430.
174 Ibid., p. 428.
175 Ibid., p. 429.
176 Adorno, ‘Luccheser Memorial’, GS, vol. 10.1, p. 396.
177 See Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Briefe, vol. 6, letters to Peter Gast,
7 July, 8 July, 9 July 1881 and 3 September 1883. With his poem Sils
Maria, he ensured that its name would live on. See also Werner Ross, Der
ängstliche Adler, pp. 577, 592 and 681.
178 Heinz Steinert, Adorno in Wien, p. 141. Steinert had a conversation with
Lotte Tobisch which he quotes in his book. Urs Kienberger, then the
owner of the Hotel Waldhaus, told the present author about having Adorno
as a guest. On rare occasions, when the mood took him, Adorno would
play the piano late into the night. He played pieces from the popular
songs and jazz repertoire of the 1920s. The Adornos spent altogether
almost 400 nights at the Waldhaus. Every summer, they always insisted
on occupying the same table by the window for dinner. As a hotel guest,
Adorno was said to be difficult and demanding.
179 Adorno, ‘Aus Sils Maria’, GS, vol. 10.1, p. 326.
180 Ibid., p. 328.
181 Jean Bollack, Celan’s biographer, commented on this failed encounter:
‘The meeting was destined not to happen. This was to make it possible for
an idea to take its place, without the obstacles that usually block its path.’
We can endorse Bollack’s view that this imagined meeting helped the