Adorno's Music and Art Drama

Adorno studied with Schoenberg and Alden Berg. Adorno's book on Beethoven is back and forth, right? Sometimes he loves him and thinks he's the most radical artist in human history. And then at other times he sees this capitulation to popularity. He would not use the term mass culture because they think it's a culture industry that's imposing something on the masses. But again, like the whole point is that there would be something radical if you are approaching it dialectically, otherwise foreclose it.