Dr. Oskar Adler (1875-1955), of Vienna, Austria, was a physician, esoteric scholar, 1st violin of the Adler Quartet, and Arnold Schoenberg's first music teacher and lifelong friend. The Critique of Pure Music - and his original German Kritik, written in 1918, remained unpublished until now. This bilingual English-German edition was translated by Michaela Meiser of Austria. Publisher and Editor, Amy Shapiro previously published Dr. Oskar Adler: A Complete Man, plus his The Testament of Astrology. Adler's timeless reflections ...
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Dr. Oskar Adler (1875-1955), of Vienna, Austria, was a physician, esoteric scholar, 1st violin of the Adler Quartet, and Arnold Schoenberg's first music teacher and lifelong friend. The Critique of Pure Music - and his original German Kritik, written in 1918, remained unpublished until now. This bilingual English-German edition was translated by Michaela Meiser of Austria. Publisher and Editor, Amy Shapiro previously published Dr. Oskar Adler: A Complete Man, plus his The Testament of Astrology. Adler's timeless reflections serve as a healing balm in our stormy times. As he writes (Ch. 2, "Essence and Origin of Music," p. 116): "Life means to understand the eternal "Now" within oneself. Any living being that is not "living in the now," does not live but is being lived. To live in the now is only possible through the inner rhythm of time - through synthesizing the perfect contradiction of unreal and real, the gnostic expression of which is becoming. Our living self is thus captured in its innermost core through the art of music, as the art of pure becoming, thus the art of being utterly alive." Reviewer's Quotes: Composer Reese Scott describes it as "a phenomenon of a unique time - the interface of the old European world with the 20th century --especially keenly felt in Vienna. It interfaces music, spirituality, anthropology, astrology, number and psychology, and transcends time in a way unique to Adler. It's a curious combination of pure sincerity mixed with relentless pedantry --he dishes out intuitions and ideas with no apology and talks about music's spiritual basis, as if it were a touching prayer. The primary force behind Adler's unique ideas is cosmic and esoteric. His work is deeply steeped in many traditions, and yet full of odd eccentricities, as shown by his unusual nomenclature for modal scales, his ideas on music and triangles, and his cosmic symbolism reminiscent of much older authors, such as Kepler." Prof. Dr. Alfred Pfabigan of Philosophical Practice M???rzstra???e, Vienna writes, "Austrian Intellectual History research owes great thanks to the editor and translator of Oskar Adler's book. Not only that much of this lost work is still valid today, it also offers an inside look into the way of thinking as articulated in the legendary "Fin de si???cle - Vienna" and which surely - unnoticed by research - also emanated to Adler's pupils, as for example Sch???nberg." For more information, visit NewAgeSages.com. "Dieses Buch ist von archivalischem Interesse als Ph???nomen einer einzigartigen Zeit - der Schnittstelle der alten europ???ischen Welt mit dem 20. Jahrhundert -, die in Wien besonders stark ???ber diese Periode zu sp???ren war. Obwohl andere B???cher dieser Zeitperiode ebenso weitreichende Perspektiven inkludieren, kenne ich keines, das so viele Disziplinen miteinander in Verbindung bringt - musikalische, spirituell-geistige, anthropologische, astrologische, numerische und psychologische. Aber dieses Buch hebt die Grenzen der Zeit in einer einzigartigen Art und Weise auf, die f???r Adler typisch war. Adler denkt ganz anders als seine Zeitgenossen, und schreibt auf vielschichtigen Ebenen. Es ist eine kuriose Mischung aus reiner Aufrichtigkeit und unnachgiebiger Pedanterie. Ich liebe es, wie er seine Eingebungen und Ideen ohne Entschuldigung auftischt. Er spricht ???ber die geistige Grundlage der Musik, als ob es sich um ein ber???hrendes Gebet handelt. Die prim???re Kraft hinter Adlers einzigartigen Ideen ist kosmischer und esoterischer Natur. Seine Arbeit ist tief in vielen Traditionen verwurzelt und trotzdem voll von schr???ger Exzentrizit???t, wie seine ungew???hnliche Nomenklatur f???r modale Skalen, seine Ideen zur Musik und Dreiecken, sowie seine kosmische Symbolik, die an sehr viel ???ltere Autoren wie Kepler erinnert." Komponist Reese Scott (USA)Oskar Adler war Arzt, Astrologe und vor allem Musik
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