ADORNO, Theodor

Essentially a philosopher, sometimes classified as a social theorist, he has also written books about music that are admired by some and loathed by many. They are filled with sentences that are hard to decipher and thoughts that, even if understood, seem to go nowhere. Often Adorno is simply wrong, as when he opens a paragraph with the declaration that Stravinsky also asserts his right to an extreme position in the modern music movement, because Stravinsky spent most of his career...