THEODOR W. ADORNO AND ALBAN BERG/ CORRESPONDENCE (1925

Adorno was 21 years old when he travelled to Vienna in March 1925 to study musical composition with Alban Berg. His correspondence with Berg, who was soon to be world-famous, is partly defined by his engagement with the compositional problems posed for the musica l avant-garde by Schönberg's discovery of the twelve-tone technique, for which Adorno was to become an advocate, not least in Vienna and through Berg. This correspondence documents how he wrote numerous essays on Berg, Webern and Schönberg during this time, and tr ied in va...[Read more]