Orpheus in the Underworld

Essays on Music and Its Mediation

Theodor W. Adorno, Douglas Robertson

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Seagull Books London Ltd
26 September 2024

Theory of music & musicology

Series: The German List

Delves into Theodor W. Adorno's lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism.

Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Adorno began his career as a composer and successful music critic.

Comprehensive and illuminating, Orpheus in the Underworld centers on Adorno's concrete and immediate engagement with musical compositions and their interpretation in the concert hall and elsewhere. Here, Adorno registers his initial encounters with the compositions of the Second Viennese School, when he had yet to integrate them into a broad aesthetics of music. Complementarily essays on Bela Bartók, Jean Sibelius, and Kurt Weill afford insight into his understanding of composers who did not fit neatly into the dialectical schema propounded in the Philosophy of New Music. Additionally, essays on recording and broadcasting show Adorno engaging with these media in a spirit that is no less productive than polemical and focused as sharply on their potentialities as on their shortcomings.

Orpheus in the Underworld offers a captivating exploration of Adorno's musical compositions, shedding new light on his understanding of influential composers and his critical perspectives on recording and broadcasting.

By: Theodor W. Adorno
Translated by: Douglas Robertson
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9781803093222
ISBN 10: 1803093226
Series: The German List
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 26 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69) was the author of Minima Moralia, Philosophy of Modern Music, and Prisms, among many other books. Douglas Robertson is a translator based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Orpheus in the Underworld

Essays on Music and Its Mediation

Theodor W. Adorno, Douglas Robertson

$41.95

Hardback

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