Abstract:In this article the author is reconstructing the complex picture of Franz
Schubert created by Theodor Adorno in his numerous references to the Viennese
composer, but mostly in his 1928 article ?Schubert?. In the late 1920s Adorno
experienced Schubert as the tragic composer whose music dwells in the realm
of chthonic gods, but nevertheless reveals the joy of ?traveling folk,
jugglers and tricksters?. It remained, however, unclear how this joy could
survive in the hellish landscapes of Schubert… Show more
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