Beethoven is a classic study of the composer’s music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive notes, essay fragments and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven’s music. This book brings together all of Beethoven’s music in relation to the society in which he lived.
Adorno identifies three periods in Beethoven’s work, arguing that the thematic unity of the first and second periods begins to break down in the third....
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Editor’s Preface.
1. Prelude.
2. Music and Concept.
3. Society.
4. Tonality.
5. Form and the Reconstruction of Form.
6. Critique.
7. Early and ‘Classical’ Phases.
8. ...
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Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), a prominent member of the Frankfurt School, was one of the most influential thinkers of this century in the areas of social theory, p...