Berg taught Adorno composition as part of a quasi-religious Schoenberg school doctrine
Evidence
Adorno was taught composition by Alban Berg and piano by Eduard Steuermann, one of the leading performers in the Schoenberg circle, along with the violinist Rudolf Kolisch, Schoenberg’s brother-in-law. Berg was the friendliest and most liberal of those in the Schoenberg circle, and what he taught Adorno
unmistakably had the character of a doctrine, the authority of "our school"'.Everything Schoenbergian is holy,’ Adorno wrote to Kracauer in March 1925, `the only other contemporary music which counts is Mahler, and anyone who is against this will be crushed.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 288
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 288
- XREF: connects to: A near-conversion to Catholicism preceded and framed Adorno’s reception of Wozzeck; Schoenberg’s school functioned as an authoritative doctrinal community — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 289; Adorno studied composition with Berg and piano with Steuermann in Vienna