Night Music

by Adorno, Theodor W.

• ISBN13: 9781906497217
• ISBN10: 1906497214
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Seagull Books

Summary

Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic.Night Musicpresents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicologist AdornoMoments musicaux, containing essays written between 1928 and 1962, andTheory of New Music, a group of texts written between 1929 and 1955. InMoments musicaux, Adorno echoes Schubert's eponymous cycle, with its emphasis on aphorism, and offers lyrical reflections on music of the past and his own time. The essays include extended aesthetic analyses that demonstrate Adorno's aim to apply high philosophical standards to the study of music.Theory of New Music, as its title indicates, presents Adorno's thoughts and theories on the composition, reception, and analysis of the music that was being written around him. His extensive philosophical writing ultimately prevented him from pursuing the compositional career he had once envisaged, but his view of the modern music of the time is not simply that of a theorist, but clearly also that of a composer. Though his advocacy of the Second Viennese School, comprising composer Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, is well known, many of his writings in this field have remained obscure. Collected in their entirety for the first time in English, the insightful texts inNight Musicshow the breadth of Adorno's musical understanding and reveal an overlooked side to this significant thinker.

Author Biography

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69) was the author of Minima Moralia, Philosophy of Modern Music, and Prisms, among many other books. Wieland Hoban is a British composer who lives in Germany. He has translated several works of Adorno, including his correspondence with Alban Berg and Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction.

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