Romantic Modernism: Bach, Furtwãngler, and Adorno.

The article focuses on the composers who write romantic modernism music. In various ways, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Theodor W. Adorno both stand as two of the twentienth century's most important and controversial musicians. As composers, their understanding of composition has enabled them to understand musical works from the inside. Adorno has become the preeminent theorist of musical modernism and its dialectical adversary known as the culture industry.