TEORI KRITIS THEODOR ADORNO.pdf

Adorno is of Jewish descent. His father, Oskar Wiesengrund, was a wine merchant, and his mother, Maria Calvelli, was a famous singer. The influence of his mother made Adorno interested in music which made him a musicologist. When he was 15 years old, between 1918 and 1919, he studied under Siegfried Kracauer. After completing his education at the Gymnasium level, he continued his studies at the University of Frankfurt, where he studied philosophy, music, and sociology. In 1924, he received a doctorate in philosophy. His interest in music led him to study music in Vienna to study composition under the guidance of Alban Berg in 1925. Adorno joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, after he wrote a thesis entitled: "Kierkegaard: the Construction of the Aesthetic" in 1933. At that time Hitler was in power, and to avoid Nazism (because he was of Jewish descent), he moved to England.