Projektnummer

0061822

Zusammenfassung

This project examines Theodor Adorno's lifelong writings on the Austrian composer Alban Berg. Adorno continually wrote about Berg from 1925 until his death in 1969. All of Adorno's writings on Berg are an attempt to construct a continuous identity of Berg as a composer, to erase the conventional labels of eclecticism or "Berg the romantic" in order to know how and why the music was constructed the way it was. In 1968 Adorno published his monograph, Alban Berg, Master of the Smallest Link, which was in some senses a consolidation of Adorno's writings on the composer. Adorno acknowledged...