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Summary:

"When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself as a leading public intellectual. Adorno's widespread influence on the postwar debates was due in part to the public lectures he gave outside of the university in which he analysed and commented on social, cultural and political developments of the time.This first volume brings together Adorno's lectures given between 1949 and 1968 on music, literature and the arts. With an engaging and improvisational style, Adorno spoke with compelling enthusiasm on subjects as diverse as Marcel Proust's prose, Richard Strauss's composition technique and Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire. Germany, restoring its social and intellectual institutions, needed to embrace the new music and writers who had been neglected, particularly with regards to Proust. To rebuild was taken to mean rediscovery, but Adorno also nurtured a vision of tradition which - far from being unthinkingly conservative - would attest to society's honestly-appraised relationship to the past while it underwent the process of modernization. The volume illustrates Adorno's deep commitment to holding contemporary music and culture to standards commensurate with the aspirations of a modern world emerging from the horrors of war. This volume of his lectures is a unique document of Adorno's startling ability to bring critical theory into dialogue with the times in which he lived. It will be of great value to anyone interested in the work of Adorno and critical theory, in German intellectual and cultural history and in the history of modern music and the arts." -- [Publisher's description]

Table of Contents:

• On Proust (1954)
• An introduction to the new music (1954)
• Culture and kultur (1957)
• Problems of music criticism (1958)
• Musical education today (1962)
• Improvisations on Wedekind (1962)
• Richard Strauss : questions of compositional technique (1964)
• Principles of form in contemporary music (1966)
• Music in Europe today : Germany (1968)
• Introduction to a performance of Pierrot lunaire (1968).

Author/Creator:

Adorno, Theodor W.

Contributors:

Schwarz, Michael (Archivist) , editor

Walker, Nicholas, 1954- , translator

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969

Languages:

English
German

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): German

Main Work:

Vorträge 1949-1968 [by Adorno, T.W.] (English)

Related Series:

Nachgelassene Schriften [by Adorno, T.W.] > Abteilung V, Vorträge und Gespräche; Bd.1 (English)

Subjects:

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 — Pierrot lunaire

Philosophy, German

Philosophy, German — 20th century

Music — History and criticism — 20th century

Music — History and criticism

Genres:

Lectures

General Notes:

Originally published in German as Vorträge 1949-1968, herausgegeben von Michael Schwarz. Taken from Nachgelassene Schriften, Abteilung V (Band I): Vortrage und Gesprache.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

B3181 V6713 2024 v.1eb
ML423.A33 V6713 2024eb

ISBNs:

150956702X (electronic book)
9781509567027 (electronic bk.)
1509552391 [Invalid]
9781509552399 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1473974516