A publishing event—a revealing new translation of Theodor Adorno’s manifesto of musical radicalism?
In 1947 Theodor W. Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to outrage. Even Schoenberg reviled it.
Despite the controversy, Philosophy of New M…
