Comments on: Adorno http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2006/05/15/adorno/ The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:55:43 -0500 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2006/05/15/adorno/comment-page-1/#comment-2023 Anonymous Thu, 18 May 2006 04:39:09 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=363#comment-2023 As for the amazon link above, this is it. <br/><br/>Beethoven: Die Späten Klaviersonaten <br/>performer: Maurizio Pollini<br/><br/>Read the Spotlight and Customer reviews. As for the amazon link above, this is it.

Beethoven: Die Späten Klaviersonaten
performer: Maurizio Pollini

Read the Spotlight and Customer reviews.

]]> By: Andrew http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2006/05/15/adorno/comment-page-1/#comment-2022 Andrew Wed, 17 May 2006 23:21:48 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=363#comment-2022 I wonder if Adorno is making differences without a distinction. More banally, if fundamentally, I would question the premise on which his thesis is based. Its applicability to Beethoven is manifest, and also to Goethe, who is mentioned in the essay. And one can think of other artists whose late work can be said to be bitter and spiny: Goya springs to mind. But what of Bartok, Stravinsky and Brahms? And of those who died young and whose last works could be said to have been written in contemplation of death, can the same be said? I would submit that Mozart's and Schubert's works are ambivalent in this respect.<br/><br/>By the way, do you know the source in Adorno (if one exists) of the wonderful exposition on op.111 in Mann's Dr Faustus? It is in keeping with this essay, but does not come from it. I wonder if Adorno is making differences without a distinction. More banally, if fundamentally, I would question the premise on which his thesis is based. Its applicability to Beethoven is manifest, and also to Goethe, who is mentioned in the essay. And one can think of other artists whose late work can be said to be bitter and spiny: Goya springs to mind. But what of Bartok, Stravinsky and Brahms? And of those who died young and whose last works could be said to have been written in contemplation of death, can the same be said? I would submit that Mozart’s and Schubert’s works are ambivalent in this respect.

By the way, do you know the source in Adorno (if one exists) of the wonderful exposition on op.111 in Mann’s Dr Faustus? It is in keeping with this essay, but does not come from it.

]]> By: Qais Al-Awqati http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2006/05/15/adorno/comment-page-1/#comment-2021 Qais Al-Awqati Wed, 17 May 2006 19:49:04 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=363#comment-2021 Edward Said's last book "On late Style" takes off from where Adorno ended; I think you would enjoy reading it, an example of Said's late style itself. In it he speculates that late style might also encompass the difficulty and anger that often accompany old age when the creative process while still or even especially fruitful faces the prospect of annihilation. He discusses Beethoven's late sontats as well. Edward Said’s last book “On late Style” takes off from where Adorno ended; I think you would enjoy reading it, an example of Said’s late style itself. In it he speculates that late style might also encompass the difficulty and anger that often accompany old age when the creative process while still or even especially fruitful faces the prospect of annihilation. He discusses Beethoven’s late sontats as well.

]]> By: sheri http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2006/05/15/adorno/comment-page-1/#comment-2020 sheri Wed, 17 May 2006 18:20:05 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=363#comment-2020 Also makes me think of Paul Celan - the "narrowing down" of his late work.<br/>S. Also makes me think of Paul Celan – the “narrowing down” of his late work.
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]]> By: Anonymous http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2006/05/15/adorno/comment-page-1/#comment-2019 Anonymous Wed, 17 May 2006 07:13:05 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=363#comment-2019 Some of you may be interested in.<br/><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001GXB<br/>/qid=1147848335/sr=1-8/<br/>ref=sr_1_8/<br/>103-2822259-5756658?s=classical&v<br/>=glance&n=5174<br/><br/>Read the reviews.<br/><br/>I ordered this CD last week ... am waiting for it. Some of you may be interested in.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001GXB
/qid=1147848335/sr=1-8/
ref=sr_1_8/
103-2822259-5756658?s=classical&v
=glance&n=5174

Read the reviews.

I ordered this CD last week … am waiting for it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2006/05/15/adorno/comment-page-1/#comment-2018 Anonymous Wed, 17 May 2006 02:39:13 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=363#comment-2018 O Yeah: emptiness outwards: cool, really cool.<br/>Late works , cool.<br/>Beethoven must be a cool cat.<br/>How do you do.<br/>You wright so cool.<br/>Acoolique. O Yeah: emptiness outwards: cool, really cool.
Late works , cool.
Beethoven must be a cool cat.
How do you do.
You wright so cool.
Acoolique.

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