Schoenberg rejected Adorno as composer and critic despite Adorno’s veneration

Evidence

Although it was Berg he was attracted to, it was Schoenberg, with all his authority, who was the decisive composer for Adorno, the one who seemed to be practising precisely what Adorno had demanded in one of his first pieces of music criticism: It is only possible to outgrow the ego by starting from the ego . . . There is no objective canopy surrounding us; we have to build our home ourselves.' It must have been all the more sobering an experience for the enthusiastic twenty-two-year-old, therefore, not to receive any recognition from Schoenberg. Adorno was far from being a prolific artist driven towards creativity, and he was still clumsy in technical analysis, which the Schoenberg school valued highly. Adorno, deadly earnest’, and loaded with `philosophical ballast’, did not impress Schoenberg either as a composer or as an aesthetician of music. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 297

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297
• XREF: connects to: Schoenberg rejected Adorno because he lacked technical fluency and prolific creativity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297; The young Adorno found Schoenberg uncanny and oppressive yet identified with him — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 290; Stefan Zweig commissioned Adorno to write a book on Schoenberg — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 978 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Schoenberg rejected Adorno because he lacked technical fluency and prolific creativity #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 297
• The young Adorno found Schoenberg uncanny and oppressive yet identified with him #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 290