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 | | Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link by Theodor W. Adorno, Christopher Hailey (Translator), Juliane Brand (Translator) ISBN-10: 9780521330169 ISBN-10: 0-521-33016-5 ISBN-13: 9780521330169 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-33016-9 Hardcover 1991-11-29 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Adorno's study of Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) is a sui generis document. In addition to Adorno's personal account of of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend, and composition teacher, the book explores the historical and cultural significance of Berg's music, its relationship to that of other nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, and to the larger issues of contemporary life. | ||
Book Description In addition to being Adorno's personal account of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend, and composition teacher, this book explores the historical and cultural significance of Berg's music and its relationship to that of other nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers. | ||
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not entirely vintage Adorno,yet lightyears beyond academia Adorno first met Alban Berg in Frankfurt during a festival of new music in June 1924. Excerpts from Berg's opera "Wozzeck" was being performed. Adorno ultimately studied composition with Berg but did not pursue a career as a composer rather Adornor became a brilliant philosopher of negative dialiectics with a profound work on aesthetics,his last major statement. In these short essays on Berg written over the course of his life, Adorno is at his weakest link. They are analytical in content traversing all of Berg.The "First Piano Sonata", The"Lyric Suite" for string quartet. Although brilliant, the complexity of thought we usually encounter in Adorno, dense loci of continuous cross-referencing, and associations of images interspersed with other artisitic genres is not to be found here. And in terms of pure musical analysis this is fairly basic representations,and ultimately not Adorno's possessive thinking realm.Academia today hates Adorno for his philosophical more socially-bound emphasis away from just this kind of note-for-note, moment-to-moment analysis along Schenkerian dimensions. Still there are conceptual meeting places in the center as George Perle's excellent work on the two Berg operas. And academia has much to fear given Adorno's impressive legacy of his writings on music . In this brief volume Adorno's thoughts on Berg's opera "Lulu" is the high point.And in a way we meet the more personal,conversational Adorno, a rare treat. | ||