Adorno’s music philosophy systematized a movement that already existed

Evidence

When Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music came out in 1949, it supplied an impressive philosophy to underpin a movement that was already well established. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 539

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno synthesized Lukacs, Kracauer, and Benjamin to justify Schoenberg’s twelve-tone revolution; Adorno’s dialectical account of musical progress risked dressing up one school’s rise as necessity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 328; Adorno founded a philosophy-of-history approach to music aesthetics centered on Schoenberg’s school — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 535 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno synthesized Lukacs, Kracauer, and Benjamin to justify Schoenberg’s twelve-tone revolution; Adorno’s dialectical account of musical progress risked dressing up one school’s rise as necessity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 328; Adorno founded a philosophy-of-history approach to music aesthetics centered on Schoenberg’s school — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 535 (+1 more)