Adorno advocated free atonal music at a post-serial stage in his 1961 Kranichstein lecture

Evidence

In the summer of 1961, Adorno attempted in his lecture at Kranichstein to point the most recent music in the direction it should take: it should move vers une musique informelle', towards the musical style of freedom’, towards resuming the project of developing free atonal music at a post-serial stage. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2201

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno redefined musical material as untamed sounds beyond grasp — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1272; Serial music extended rational organization while dropping Adorno’s subjective complement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2190; Adorno saw Young Music and serialism as complementary objectivisms crushing the subject — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2192

Broader Connections

• Serial music extended rational organization while dropping Adorno’s subjective complement #responds-to (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2190
• Adorno saw Young Music and serialism as complementary objectivisms crushing the subject #responds-to (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2192
• Adorno redefined musical material as untamed sounds beyond grasp #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1272