The dating of Seiber/Adorno papers held by the British Library

摘要

THE welcome publication by Nick Chadwickof Matyas Seiber's comments on TheodorWiesengrund Adorno's jazz research proposal(the 'Expose') of January 1936 and theircorrespondence during the subsequent writingof Adorno's essay 'On Jazz' ('Uber Jazz')provides valuable insight into their co-operation.Seiber's assistance was publicly acknowledgedby Adorno both in 1936 when hesent Seiber the proofs of the article, whichincluded a full acknowledgement, and again in1953 when Adorno defended himself againstcriticism of 'Uber Jazz' by the German jazzexpert, Joachim Ernst Berendt. However, anyappraisal of the extent to which Seiber infiuencedAdorno or persuaded him to moderatethe views expressed in 'On Jazz' may behampered by Chadwick's assumption thatSeiber's comments on Adorno's jazz researchproposal reached him only after 'On Jazz' hadgone to press.