Musikalische Schriften V: Band 18: Musikalische Schriften V

"The music-philosophical and music-critical work of Adorno becomes accessible by the appearance of the volume 18 of his collected writings. According to the time of origin, they range from the youth of Adornos - the earliest date back to 1922 when he was 19 years old - to immediately before his death in 1969. As different as the works are presented under the aspect of the literary form: aphorisms stand next to critics and reviews; radio lectures alongside analyses of individual compositions; lexicon articles next to treatises of monographic character - so insistently they document at the same time the unity of philosophical consciousness from which Adorno's thinking about music emerged almost from the beginning. . Central to Adorno's musical philosophy is the effort to create a theory of new music."