Adorno on Wagner, Strauss and Scriabin

Just found this:
"There is one sphere in which the previous generation has failed us
after all: musical pornography. Tristan's ecstasies between night and
day, the complex and resonant soul of Princess Salome and, lastly, the
cosmic utterances of Alexander Scriabin — however exalted their
aspirations may have been, their goal ultimately was always the musical
representation of a consummated sexual intercourse. But this they were
unable to achieve. Notwithstanding Schreker's notable experiments and
Skriabin's valiant efforts, the orchestral euphoria remains paltry when
compared with the ecstasies of physical intercourse. The fate of that
idea of unattainable joy inaugurated by romantic music is now sealed. It
is not simply that it has lost the idealistic Divine Spark which it had
ostensibly been striving for. Even worse, the actual bodily pleasure
which was its real focus was denied it. So the belief that the erotic
music of the nineteenth century was impotent is more than just
psychologically valid and the state prosecutors who left it in peace had
good reason to do so."
And it seems to be a valid observation...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/2839-adorno-s-motifs-a-selection?srsltid=AfmBOor84CwfMOEqm4ZvBMK5V5cMt9euwHJMT3zXbfu_4m1lacrwN1br