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The New Music - Kranichstein Lectures (Hardcover)
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The New Music - Kranichstein Lectures (Hardcover)
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A year after the end of the Second World War, the first
International Summer Course for New Music took place in the
Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany.
The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was
intended to familiarize young composers and musicians with the
music that, only a few years earlier, had been denounced as
degenerate by the Nazi regime, and it soon developed into one of
the most important events in contemporary music. Having returned to
Germany in 1949 from exile in the United States, Adorno was a
regular participant at Darmstadt from 1950 on. In 1955 he gave a
series of lectures on the young Schoenberg, using the latter's work
to illustrate the relation between tradition and the avant-garde.
Adorno's three double-length lectures on the young Schoenberg, in
which he spoke as a passionate advocate for the composer whom
Boulez had declared dead, were his first at Darmstadt to be
recorded on tape. The relation between tradition and the
avant-garde was the leitmotif of the lectures that followed, which
continued over the next decade. Adorno also dealt in detail with
problems of composition in contemporary music, and he often
accompanied his lectures with off-the-cuff musical improvisations.
The five lecture courses he gave at Darmstadt between 1955 and 1966
were all recorded and subsequently transcribed, and they are
published here for the first time in English. This volume is a
unique document on the theory and history of the New Music. It will
be of great value to anyone interested in the work of Adorno and
critical theory, in German intellectual and cultural history, and
in the history of modern music.
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