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-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-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: HL.49006588
ISBN 9783795701123. German.
