KV 614: Schock und Struktur in der Wiener Klassik

In this essay the authors approach Mozart´s radical dissonances from two different analytical perspectives. While Heinrich Schenker presupposes a complete mediation of structure and single event Adorno stresses the impossibility of this mediation from an atonal point of view. While Schenker is integrating the excentric dissonances within the structure Adorno interprets them as a shock that destroys the structure. This double analytical approach leads to a reconsideration of the classical aesthetics of organicity (C. G. Körner) which combines both approaches dialectically and enables us to interpret Mozart´s experiments as both functional and transcending the structure.