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Brecht, Music And Culture: Hanns Eisler In Conversation With Hans Bunge
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- Book Title
- Brecht, Music And Culture: Hanns Eisler In Conversation With...
- ISBN
- 9781472524355
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Brecht, Music and Culture : Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period of four years, from 1958 until his death in 1962, Eisler offers a compelling and absorbing account of his and Brecht's period of exile in Europe and the USA between 1933 and 1947, and of the quality of artistic, social and intellectual life in post-war East Germany. Brecht, Music and Culture includes a discussion of a number of Brecht's principal plays, including Life of Galileo and The Caucasian Chalk Circle , considers the place of music in Brecht's work and discusses the time that Brecht was brought before The House of Un-American Activities Committee. It includes lively accounts of Brecht's meetings with key cultural figures, including Arnold Schönberg, Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann, and offers throughout a sustained response to the question of the purpose of art in a time of political turmoil.Throughout the conversations, Eisler provides illuminating and original insights into Brecht's work and ideas and gives a highly entertaining first-hand account of his friend's personality and attitudes. First published in Germany in 1975, and now published in English for the first time, the conversations provide a fascinating account of the lives and work of two of the twentieth century's greatest artists.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1472524357
ISBN-13
9781472524355
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201605717
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Brecht, Music and Culture : Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pt2603.R397
Reviews
As Brecht's essay on "gestic music" makes clear, the concept of gestic performance emerged from his close collaborations with composers. Bloomsbury's companion volume, Brecht, Music and Culture, is thus doubly welcome, first for translating Eisler's thoughtful conversations with Hans Bunge, Fragen Sie mehr über Brecht (1970), and second for explaining rather than mis-translating Verfremdung and so helping to consolidate a Brecht lexicon consistent with the new Brecht on Theatre. This publication also draws attention to the uneven transmission of Brecht's musical collaborators' critical commentary, as well as musical compositions., Eisler's conversations with Hans Bunge about Brecht focus on their time together in Hollywood as well as on the building of a 'magnificent' new social republic. For Eisler, the 'be-all and end-all' of their work was to 'educate the teacher!' . The most fascinating and perplexing aspect of the conversations turns on the effort to 'study the effect of art on human beings.' . The lesson of the great modernists was the lesson of socialism. In other words, ending capitalism was the precondition for making and understanding great art.
Table of Content
Notes to the German edition by Hans Bunge Translator's note Conversation 1 14 Ways of Describing Rain - Meetings between Brecht and Arnold Schoenberg, Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann - Brecht and Music Conversation 2 Galileo - Hollywood Elegies - Brecht and Feuchtwanger - Brecht and Music for the Theatre - Schweyk in the Second World War Conversation 3 Brecht on Arnold Schoenberg - Gestic Music - The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Döblin's 65th Birthday Party Conversation 4 Music for The Private Life of the Master Race - Prologue to Galileo - Eisler and the House Committee on Un-American Activities - The Mother in New York - Brecht and Stefan Zweig - Bajazzo Conversation 5 Brecht's Hexameters for the Communist Manifesto - Was Brecht a Marxist? - Brecht's Method of Verfremdung Conversation 6 'To Those Born Later' - Boogie-Woogie - Eisler on Religion - Galileo Conversation 7 'Hotel Room 1942' - Hölderlin Conversation 8 On Stupidity in Music I - Hölderlin Conversation 9 Hans Mayer's book on Brecht - Brecht and Georg Lukács Conversation 10 The Music to Schweyk in the Second World War - On Stupidity in Music II Conversation 11 Hölderlin Poems - On Stupidity in Music III Conversation 12 Eisler on Classical Literature, on the Function of Art, on Cybernetics and on Napoleon Conversation 13 Serious Songs - Eisler's Plans for a Symphony Conversation 14 Eisler and Bunge Compare Their Experiences as Soldiers Afterword: For the First Edition of the 'Conversations' by Stephan Hermlin Notes Appendix Index
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Composers & Musicians
Dewey Decimal
832.912
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
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