Eisler: Complete Edition (HEGA) Serie VI (Filmmusik) Bd. 10: Szenen aus The Grapes of Wrath / Hangmen Also Die - ed. by Johannes C. Gall The Hanns Eisler Complete Edition is setting sail for new shores. Two volumes, or three scores, have inaugurated the extensive Group VI Film Music. With The Grapes of Wrath and Hangmen Also Die, the editors have brought together in one volume two works which both stem from Eisler s Hollywood years, but were created as a result of very different impulses. The brief score to John Steinbeck s film The Grapes of Wrath takes its place in the experiments launched by the Rockefeller Film Music Project (1940-42), during the course of which Eisler composed alternative music to selected scenes from already existing films. For Fritz Lang s full-length Anti-Nazi film Hangmen Also Die, Eisler reprised certain parts of the Grapes music in order to ultimately create a lengthy film score that even won him an Oscar nomination in 1944.
SKU: BR.BV-383
Zur Theorie und Praxis von Hanns Eislers Filmmusik
ISBN 9783765103834. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Hanns Eisler's film music has been a subject of increasing interest in recent years, in the context of significant new source materials and DVD editions as well as innovative scholarly approaches to music and film. Whereas Eisler's reputation as a film composer was previously defined by the book Composing for the Films, written in collaboration with Theodor W. Adorno, it is now his 40-odd film scores themselves which are the object of detailed investigation. The present collection of essays covers a wide range of films, from Niemandsland (1931) to Esther (1962). The twelve authors from Germany, Great Britain, Mexico, Spain, and the USA employ wide-ranging approaches to film music analysis in their treatment of the subject, while also considering the question of the extent to which Eisler actually fulfilled his own theoretical demands. It is not surprising that the authors of the third Eisler Studien have come up with refreshingly diverse and highly rewarding results.
SKU: BR.SON-512
The major upheavals that transformed society and musical aesthetics during the first half of the 20th century also profoundly affected the life of Hanns Eisler, as well as his compositions and writings. The importance and scope of Eislers oeuvre are re. Early modern; Music post-1945. Complete Works. 224 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 512. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-512).
ISBN 9790004803455. 9 x 12 inches.
Editorial BoardThomas Phleps (Music), Georg Witte (Writings)Editorial MembersMusic: Oliver Dahin / Johannes C. Gall, Writings: Maren KosterEditorial CommitteeMusic: Hartmut Fladt, Werner Grunzweig, Elmar Juchem, Roland Kluttig, Giselher SchubertWritings: Albrecht Betz, Albrecht Riethmuller, Jurgen Schebera, Friederike WissmannThe editorial works are supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.Sp ecial volumes are made possible with the support of the following foundations:Klockner-Stif tung, Lotto-Stiftung, Hanns und Steffy Eisler StiftungThe goal of the Hanns Eisler Complete Edition (HEGA) is to present to the public all available compositions, writings and letters in an appropriately scholarly form. It takes a historico-critical approach and seeks to document the history of the works and writings by shedding light on their transformations, thus identifying the various versions as witnesses of evolving aesthetic and historical positions. Eislers complete oeuvre (only a limited number of his works had penetrated the publics awareness up until the 1990s) first became the object of an editorial undertaking when the Eisler - Gesammelte Werke (EGW) was founded by Nathan Notowicz. It was later placed under the direction of Manfred Grabs and Eberhardt Klemm, and began issuing its publications in 1968 through the intermediary of the Deutscher Verlag fur Musik in Leipzig. However, only four volumes of music and five volumes of writings were published. The Hanns Eisler Complete Edition pursues the work begun at that time, although it has had to fundamentally revise its editorial principles. In this respect, the Hanns Eisler Complete Edition can be considered as a completely new editorial undertaking. It became necessary to reconceive the organization of the volumes and series as well as the editorial guidelines in order to adapt the standards of historico-critical editing generally applicable today to the specific and sometimes singular circumstances of Eislers works.The Critical Commentaries pertaining to the main volumes follow the music section or, whenever they are too extensive, appear in a special volume.Series I: Choral MusicSeries II: Music for Voice and Instrumental Ensemble or OrchestraSeries III: Music for Voice and PianoSeries IV: Instrumental MusicSeries V: Incidental MusicSeries VI: Film MusicSeries VII: Sketches and FragmentsSeries VIII: Arrangements of works by other composersSeries IX: Writings, Letters and InterviewsSON 501 has been awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2003.SON 502 has been awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2007.The major upheavals that transformed society and musical aesthetics during the first half of the 20th century also profoundly affected the life of Hanns Eisler, as well as his compositions and writings. The importance and scope of Eislers oeuvre are reason enough to make his works accessible to musical scholarship and practice in a comprehensive fashion. Price reduction for a subscription.
SKU: BR.SON-505
The major upheavals that transformed society and musical aesthetics during the first half of the 20th century also profoundly affected the life of Hanns Eisler, as well as his compositions and writings. The importance and scope of Eislers oeuvre are re. Early modern; Music post-1945. Complete Works. 156 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 505. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-505).
ISBN 9790004802441. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. German.
SKU: BR.SON-507
ISBN 9790004802908. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-501
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2003
ISBN 9790004802236. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-502
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2007
ISBN 9790004802489. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.BV-341
ISBN 9783765103414. 5 x 8.5 inches. German.
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ISBN 9783765103490. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. German.
SKU: BR.BV-348
ISBN 9783765103483. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. German.
SKU: BR.SON-513
ISBN 9790004803721. 9 x 12 inches. German / English.
SKU: BR.SON-504
ISBN 9790004802526. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-511
ISBN 9790004803448. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004803356. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-506
ISBN 9790004802779. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-508
ISBN 9790004803301. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.SON-509
ISBN 9790004803318. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.BV-382
Hanns Eislers Wiener Arbeiten nach der Ruckkehr aus dem Exil
ISBN 9783765103827. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Hanns Eisler's native Vienna is the point of convergence for the approach to three complexes in his life and works: re-emigration, film music and incidental music. At the center is the period between Eisler's return from exile in the U.S. in 1948 and the end of his compositional engagement in Vienna, which was closely connected to the withdrawal of the Soviet occupational forces from Austria in 1955. At the center of Eisler's film and incidental music are three major works which Peter Schweinhardt examines on the basis of widely unknown musical material and documents: the filming of Brecht's Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (1955), the work on the script of the Fidelio screen adaptation by Walter Felsenstein (1953-56) and the incidental music to Nestroy's Hollenangst (1948). This lengthy score is characteristic of Eisler's post-war project of a new, folkloristic-classicistic music.
SKU: BR.BV-385
ISBN 9783765103858. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Exiled from Nazi Germany, the composer Hanns Eisler moved to Los Angeles in April 1942 to make a living in the Hollywood film industry. After some time of struggling, he finally was commissioned to compose the music for Fritz Lang's anti-Nazi film Hangmen Also Die , whose script was in large part written by Bertolt Brecht. Following this, Eisler worked together with Theodor W. Adorno on the book Composing for the Films . Completed in 1944, it was not until 1947 that an English version of the book was published by Oxford University Press. Shortly before the book went into print, Adorno withdrew his co-authorship in order to avoid attracting the attention of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The study provides detailed analyses and correlations of the book Composing for the Films and the soundtrack of Hangmen Also Die. The reflections on Adorno's and Eisler's book outline the complex textual history, problems arising in connection with the co-authorship, and essential views and theses, not least in view of the aspect of the Composition for the Hollywood Film. The part on the film music of Hangmen Also Die focuses mainly on its in-depth analysis. The study is based on extensive archive research and contributes not only to explore Eisler's life and oeuvre but also to the research of Adorno and Brecht as well as general music in exile and film music.
SKU: HL.49008020
ISBN 9783795723835. German.
Hanns Eisler gehort nicht nur zu den produktivsten und vielseitigsten Musikern des 20. Jahrhunderts, sein Name steht insbesondere fur die Idee des politischen Komponierens unter den besonderen, oft widerspruchlichen Bedingungen seiner und unserer Zeit. Die in der Vergangenheit unter wechselnden Vorzeichen erfolgte ideologische Auseinandersetzung mit Person und Werk des Komponisten hat den Blick auf die Intelligenz und Schonheit seiner Musik nicht selten verstellt. Der nun wieder zunehmenden Hinwendung zu seinem ouvre wird mit dieser Biographie zum 100. Geburtstag Rechnung getragen, die dem Leser erstmals umfassendes Material zum Leben Eislers zuganglich macht. Der Autor hat sich 30 Jahren mit Hanns Eisler befasst und konnte fur sein Buch eine Vielzahl bisher unveroffentlichter Dokumente und Bilder aus offentlichem und privatem Besitz heranziehen.