The New Music: Kranichstein Lectures by Theodor W Adorno HARDBACK 9781509538089

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The New Music: Kranichstein Lectures\nby Theodor W Adorno\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Theodor W Adorno\nTitle: The New Music: Kranichstein Lectures\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Music reviews and criticism\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781509538089\nISBN-10: 1509538089\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nA 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 o.