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.
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"...anyone with more than a passing interest in Berg must read it." American Record Guide
"Theodor Adorno's study of his teacher Alban Berg is a remarkable document; a personal memoir and a study of the composer's works, it is also something more; a revelation of Adorno's belief that modern philosophy ought to be modelled on modern music. Adorno's Berg, one of his most provocative books, has been beautifully translated and edited by Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey....Adorno's Berg is a book of great importance. For it is in this book that we can understand how Adorno became, as it were, greater than himself." Richard Sennett, Times Literary Supplement
"This is a major addition to the Berg bibliography." Choice
"Theodor Adorno's study of his teacher Alban Berg is a remarkable document; a personal memoir and a study of the composer's works, it is also something more; a revelation of Adorno's belief that modern philosophy ought to be modelled on modern music. Adorno's Berg, one of his most provocative books, has been beautifully translated and edited by Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey....Adorno's Berg is a book of great importance. For it is in this book that we can understand how Adorno became, as it were, greater than himself." Richard Sennett, Times Literary Supplement
"This is a major addition to the Berg bibliography." Choice
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Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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not entirely vintage Adorno,yet lightyears beyond academia,
By Rachel Abbinanti (tusai1@aol.com) (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link (Paperback)
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.
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Brilliant! ....simply...,
By SecondLaw of Thermodynamics (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link (Paperback)
This is the definitive work on Berg I believe. This is Adorno at his best. You might already know that Adorno is notoriously difficult to read- as in his Philosophy of Western Music- but this is wonderful.
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Familiar from childhood is the last movement of Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony, that F # minor piece in which one instrument after another ceases to play and departs, until finally only two violins remain to extinguish the light. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concluding paradigm, rondo entrance, rondo reprise, intervallic expansion, transitional theme, static suspension, smallest link, consequent phrase, free atonality, antecedent phrase, motivic material, short score, harmonic language, developmental paradigm, secondary theme Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chamber Concerto, Lyric Suite, Violin Concerto, Clarinet Pieces, Chamber Symphony, Orchestral Pieces, Schoenberg School, Der Wein, Altenberg Songs, Alban Berg, Seven Early Songs, Frau Mahler, First World War, Karl Kraus, Willi Reich, Ernst Krenek, Lulu's Song, National Socialists New!
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Familiar from childhood is the last movement of Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony, that F # minor piece in which one instrument after another ceases to play and departs, until finally only two violins remain to extinguish the light. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concluding paradigm, rondo entrance, rondo reprise, intervallic expansion, transitional theme, static suspension, smallest link, consequent phrase, free atonality, antecedent phrase, motivic material, short score, harmonic language, developmental paradigm, secondary theme Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chamber Concerto, Lyric Suite, Violin Concerto, Clarinet Pieces, Chamber Symphony, Orchestral Pieces, Schoenberg School, Der Wein, Altenberg Songs, Alban Berg, Seven Early Songs, Frau Mahler, First World War, Karl Kraus, Willi Reich, Ernst Krenek, Lulu's Song, National Socialists New!
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- Alban Berg by Theodor W. (Theodor Wiesengrund) Adorno on 14 pages
- Philosophy of Modern Music (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno in Front Matter
- The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (Arts & Letters) by Charles Baudelaire on page 114
- Piano Sonata (Faber Edition) by George Benjamin on page 136
- Negative Dialectics (Negative Dialectics Ppr) by Theodor W. Adorno on page 132
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- The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Tom Huhn on page 27, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature (Studies in Philosophy) by Ulrich Plass in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Muse As Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy And Male Creativity in the Romantic And Modern Imagination by Stephen Downes on page 221, and Back Matter
- The Stravinsky Legacy (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Jonathan Cross in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Adorno's Aesthetics of Music by Max Paddison in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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