Adorno went to Vienna to study music with Alban Berg, not for politics.

Evidence

Frankfurt, however, offered little beyond traditional musical training, and Adorno was anxious to immerse himself in the more innovative music issuing at that time from Vienna. In the spring or summer of 1924 he met Alban Berg at the Frankfurt Festival of the Universal German Music Society and was captivated by three fragments from his yet unperformed opera, Wozzeck. He immediately decided to follow Berg to Vienna and become his student. Delayed only by his university studies in Frankfurt, he arrived in the Austrian capital in January, 1925. The Vienna to which he moved was less the city of Otto Bauer and Karl Renner, Rudolf Hilferding and Max Adler (the milieu Grunberg had left to come to Frankfurt) than the apolitical but culturally radical Vienna of Karl Kraus and the Schonberg circle. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 142

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s Vienna years were shaped by musical modernism, not Austro-Marxist politics — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 142

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s Vienna years were shaped by musical modernism, not Austro-Marxist politics #corroborates (0.92) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 142