Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
THEODOR W. ADORNO Translated by Jonathan Dunsby and Beate Perrey Introduction Adorno was twenty-five when he wrote the essay "Schubert" in 1928. It was first published in the same year to open a special issue devoted to the centennial of Schubert's death in the leading music journal Die Musik. More than three decades later, in 1964, when invited by his publisher Suhrkamp to prepare a collection of his most important critical writings on music, Adorno chose "Schubert" to be part of what became the volume Moments musicaux, named after Schubert's famous collection for the piano. By this time, five years before his death in 1969, Adorno had produced hundreds of music-critical essays. Selecting "Schubert" for reprint alongside fifteen further texts, including such seminal pieces as "Spätstil Beethovens" (Late Style in Beethoven) (1937) and "Verfremdetes Hauptwerk: Zur Missa Solemnis" (Alienated Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis) (1959), indicates that Adorno regarded "Schubert" to be of lasting critical and epistemological significance. Indeed, in the foreword of the 1964 edition, the philosopher judged "Schubert" to be his "first comprehensive . . . study of the meaning of music."1 Now three-quarters of a century old, Adorno's "Schubert" has gone virtually without mention and certainly
19th-Century Music – University of California Press
Published: Jul 1, 2005
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.