They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works....

“ They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian. ”

Theodor W. Adorno

From : Essays on Music