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.Special volumes are made possible with the support of the following foundations:Klockner-Stiftung, 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-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-502
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2007
ISBN 9790004802489. 10 x 12.5 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.BV-341
ISBN 9783765103414. 5 x 8.5 inches. German.
SKU: BR.BV-349
ISBN 9783765103490. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. German.
SKU: BR.SON-509
ISBN 9790004803318. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.BV-348
ISBN 9783765103483. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. German.
SKU: BR.BDV-627
ISBN 9783370003598. 5.5 x 8 inches.
With contributions by Albrecht Betz, Albrecht Dumling (Zur Person Hanns Eislers), Wolfgang Hufschmidt, Gunter Mayer, Hans Mayer (Der Zeitgenosse Hanns Eisler), Gerhard Muller und Jurgen Schebera (Eisler-Fest Berlin 1995) as well as with informations about the Internationalen Hanns Eisler Society"The epoch of an echo following so much writing on the Cold War and the actual war is gradually waning. Suddenly, our great departed are being reassessed and honored: Brecht and Arnold Zweig, Walter Felsenstein and Ernst Busch, Hanns Eisler and Paul Dessau ... The process we are undertaking here is one of renewed awareness. We are called upon to play an active and thankful role." (Hans Mayer) Die bis auf wenige Ausnahmen entweder zur Zeit vergriffenen oder hier erstmals publizierten Werke umspannen einen Zeitraum der von den funfziger bis zu den neunziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts reicht. Neben Originalkompositionen stehen der Erstdruck der einzigen Schumann-Bearbeitung fur Klavier zu zwei Handen von Brahms - der pianistisch glanzenden Ubertragung des Scherzos aus dem Klavierquintett op. 44 - sowie drei bekannte Brahms-Lieder in der einfuhlsamen Bearbeitung von Theodor Kirchner. Ausgewahlt wurden vorzugsweise kurzere Werke mittlerer Schwierigkeit die sich fur Vortrags- und Unterrichtszwecke gleichermassen eignen. :Ein Versuch das komplexe Verhaltnis von Brahms zu seinen Freunden zu umreissen Angaben zur Biographie der einzelnen Komponisten und zu ihren Beziehungen zu Brahms zu den benutzten Quellen sowie zu editorischen Entscheidungen finden sich im Anhang.
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.
SKU: HL.49045273
ISBN 9783795780852. German. Author: Fritz Hennenberg.
Unvermindert wird uber Hanns Eisler diskutiert wie uber nur wenige andere Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er war und ist sowohl als Musiker als auch als Gesellschaftsbeobachter und -kritiker im Gesprach. Aufgrund judischer Herkunft und kommunistischer Gesinnung verbrachte er die 1930er und 1940er Jahre im Exil, danach fanden vor allem seine neuen Kompositionen grossen Anklang. Bei einem seiner Befurworter handelte es sich um Bertolt Brecht, der besonders das Erscheinen seiner Lieder und Kantaten unterstutzte. Der renommierte Eisler-Experte Fritz Hennenberg legt hier eine durchgesehene und vollstandig aktualisierte Fassung seines Buchs vor, die sich nach wie vor durch eine angenehme und anschauliche Sprache bei hoher Qualitat auszeichnet.
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-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.BV-384
Proceedings of the International Hanns Eisler Conference, London 2010
ISBN 9783765103841. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. English.
The Call for Papers for an Eisler Congress in England met with a surprisingly lively response, and the well-attended event at the Institute of Musical Research of the University of London in April 2010 led to a variety of interesting results. The thematic spectrum of the mainly British and German scholars ranged from Eislers short period of exile in the 1930s to the present-day reception and re-interpretation of his works in England through, for example, the rock musician Sting. All the texts in this volume are published in English with German abstracts.Proceedings of the International Hanns Eisler Conference, London 2010.
SKU: BR.BV-402
ISBN 9783765104022. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Eisler for the Present Age In 2012, the 50th anniversary of Hanns Eisler's death was the occasion at an international symposium for a review of the current Eisler research. The range of topics in this volume of more or less extensively revised symposium papers covers the analysis of various compositional and aesthetic aspects, especially from film music, via the historiographically-oriented survey of the stages of the composer's biography (in Denmark, USA, Austria, Germany) to the general consideration of Eisler's position in the past and the present. Investigating the history of the Eisler reception in Japan turns out to be real virgin territory.
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: BR.BV-381
50 Jahren nach Erscheinen des Operntexts 1952. Symposion
ISBN 9783765103810. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
The series of writings by Eisler begins with a theme that is just as timely and engrossing today as it was fifty years ago: Hanns Eisler's abortive opera project Johann Faustus. The essays of the 2002 Berlin Congress shed light on various aspects of Eisler's ambitious plan, from his text montage and musical conception to the controversy of the Faustus debate. The essays present Faustus in the context of the cultural-political vision of a German national opera and the political situation shortly before the uprisings in East Germany in 1953.
SKU: BR.DV-4871-01
ISBN 9790200440379. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
Die Ausgabe ,,Eisler - Gesammelte Werke verfolgte das Ziel, das musikalische und publizistische Schaffen des Komponisten umfassend, in systematischer Ordnung und in wissenschaftlich-kritischer Aufbereitung fur die praktische Musikubung und fur die Forschung zu erschliessen.
SKU: BR.BDV-155
ISBN 9783370001280. 0 x 0 inches.