Hanns Eisler, political musician / Albrecht Betz ; translated by Bill Hopkins.
| Author/creator | Betz, Albrecht |
| Other author | Hopkins, Bill, 1943-1981, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | English edition. |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982. |
| Description | ix, 326 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Hanns Eisler. English |
| Contents | Early years in Vienna. Songs, piano music and chamber music -- Berlin: music and politics. The move to the German capital ; The break with Schoenberg ; Interim on the Bourgeois left: three transitional works ; Militant music ; Political choruses ; Militant songs and political ballads ; The great syntheses. Die Massnahme ; Kuhle Wampe ; Die Mutter -- Fifteen years of exile. Bases in Europe ; Renaissance of the cantata ; A document of anti-fascist resistance ; The quarrel with Lukacs ; Escape to America ; Practice and theory: project for film music ; Hollywood: a temporary refuge ; A victim of the witch hung -- The final decade. Opera without music: Johann Faustus -- Ernste Gesange -- Eisler's modernity. |
| Abstract | Eisler's role in German music is similar to that of Brecht in German literature and the two men worked together for nearly thirty years. Together with Webern and Berg, Eisler is considered one of the three great pupils of Schoenberg. The author divides Eisler's life and music into four periods. The early formative period as student of Schoenberg includes compositions written in Vienna up to 1925. From 1926 to 1933, the second period, Eisler lived in Berlin and made his greatest impact with his political vocal music. The third phase of Eisler's life, fifteen years of exile, was spent principally in the USA, and the fourth (from 1948) in East Germany. The author shows how Eisler is distinguished from other great twentieth-century composers in his belief that music had a social function, and how he liberated modern music from what he and others felt was its isolation. Originally published in German in 1976, this English edition is illustrated with music examples and includes a complete list of works, and a bibliography which has been adapted for the English-speaking reader. |
| General note | "List of works": pages 276-310. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-275) and index. |
| LCCN | 81012260 |
| ISBN | 0521240220 |
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