Stefan Zweig commissioned Adorno to write a book on Schoenberg

Evidence

In October 1937, Stefan Zweig asked Adorno to write a book about Schoenberg. Adorno had made a major contribution to an unexpectedly successful book on Alban Berg shortly before, and the new book was to appear with the same publishers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 978

Categorization

• XREF: Adorno’s placing of Schoenberg alongside Freud and Karl Kraus as kindred spirits encodes a core claim of his aesthetic theory — later central to Aesthetic Theory and his philosophy of the new music. — connects to: Adorno’s Vienna years fixed Schoenberg’s music as central to his aesthetics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 326; Schoenberg rejected Adorno as composer and critic despite Adorno’s veneration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297

Broader Connections

• Schoenberg rejected Adorno as composer and critic despite Adorno’s veneration #qualifies (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 297