ADORNO’S PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC: A CONTEMPORARY READING WITH AN ACCENT ON THE SCHÖNBERG CASE
ADORNO’S PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC: A CONTEMPORARY READING WITH AN ACCENT ON THE SCHÖNBERG CASE

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, Adorno has been revisited in the fields of musicology and philosophy because his insightsare still valuable for contemporary issues of aesthetic experience and performance practice – to scholars like LydiaGoehr and Andrew Bowie. In my view, Adorno has a major importance today also due to his metaphysicalcontextualization of music. It is the aim of any philosophy to attach generalized meanings to facts and this kind of broadperspective upon things is absent in present theoretical debates concerning music. My paper will concentrate on thepresentation of Adorno’s central claims about music with a case study on Arnold Schönberg, one of the most influential,innovative and labyrinthine composers from the twentieth century.

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