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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 May 2011
      29 November 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511552441
      9780521338844
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552441
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 176 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music
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    Adorno's study of Alban Berg is a unique document. Itself now a part of music history, it is a personal account, by a pre-eminent philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend and composition teacher. Shortly after Berg's death in 1935, Adorno contributed several analyses to the first Berg biography. Thirty years later he incorporated these chapters and several subsequent essays into one volume. Beyond analyses of individual pieces, the book explores the historical and cultural significance of Berg's music, its relationship to that of other twentieth-century composers, and to the larger issues of contemporary life. This is a classic study, made available here for the first time in English, and it provides a key to understanding Adorno himself as well as offering an individual perspective on one of the major composers of the twentieth century.

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    ‘ … 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 by Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey.’

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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