A rebel in music : selected writings

228 Pages·1978·26.532 MB·English

by  Hanns Eisler

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INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS
Book No. 0486
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Hanns Eisler
A
Rebelin Music

INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS
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Hanns
Eisler
A
Rebelin Music
Editor
Manfred Grabs

Hanns
Eisler
A
Musk
Rebel in
Selected Writings
Edited and
with an Introduction by
Manfred Grabs
International Publishers
New York
Published simultaneously by
International Publishers,NewYork
and Seven Seas Books, Berlin, 1978
Marjorie Meyer
Translator
LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData
Eisler,Hanns,1898-1962.
Arebel inmusic.
1.Music-Addresses,essays,lectures.
I.Title.
ML60.E4 780'.8 76-55331
ISBN0-7178-0486-0
Copyright(c)byVEBDeutscherVerlagfürMusik,Leipzig,1976
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SevenSeasBooks,1978,ispublishedwith thepermission
ofVEBDeutscherVerlagfürMusik,Leipzig.
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Contents
Introduction
Music for the New World
in the Forming
Manfred Grabs 9
Editor's Note 18
On Old and New Music 19
Satirical Aphorisms 24
On the Situation in Modern Music 27
Progress in the Workers' Music Movement 32
The Builders of a New Music Culture 36
Our Revolutionary Music 59
Blast-Furnace Music 61
Music for Workers' Orchestras 64
Address to a Solidarity Concert 69
Letter to Ernst Hermann Meyer 74
On Schönberg 75
The Birth of a Worker's Song 77
A Musical Journey through America 82
Problems of Working-Class Music 95
Hollywood Seen from the Left 101
Some Remarks on the Situation
of the Modern Composer 106
The Crisis in Music 114
From My Practical Work 121
Letter to Bertolt Brecht 126
On a Concert for the International
Brigade in Spain 128
Labor, Labor Movement and Music 131
Fantasia in G-men 150
Basic Social Questions of Modern Music 155
Thoughts on the Anniversary of
Beethoven's Death 168
Bertolt Brecht and Music 172
On Good Listening 175
Song Born of Struggle 178
I Once Knew a Headwaiter 186
On Stupidity in Music 188
America's War of Independence -
Indirect Aggression? 203
Schweik and German Militarism 205
Thoughts on Form and Content 212
Chronology 218