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Just whom does this Hanns Eisler make music for?

 

Hanns Eisler was a student of Arnold Schoenberg. He wrote his music for Berlin workers’ choruses and the Hollywood film industry, for avant garde music festivals and communist party meetings, for radio, stage and cabaret. He composed significant piano, chamber and orchestral music, over 500 Lieder and one national anthem …more

  

New Eisler CD 
Salome Kammer: I'm a stranger here myself

Released in February 2013, the new CD by actor and singer Salome Kammer includes vocal music by Kurt Weill as well as songs from the Hollywood Songbook and a number of late works by Hanns Eisler such as Im Blumengarten, L'automne prussien and Der Pflaumenbaum (second version, 1960) …more information
 

 
News

Major Eisler film retrospective in Vienna
From 18 April to 6 May 2013, the Austrian Film Museum is showing the most complete Eisler film retrospective to date.
more information / all events (click on "nächste Woche" to see more)


Klavierstücke op. 8 available again
In December 2012, Edition Peters published a corrected reprint of Eisler's Klavierstücke op. 8. …more information


Eisler's nonets – new volume in the Hanns Eisler Complete Edition (HEGA)
The new HEGA volume with Eisler's nonets was published by Breitkopf & Härtel just before the 50th anniversary of the composer death, edited by Thomas Ahrend and Volker Helbing …more information
 

For the first time on DVD: Bel Ami with Eisler's film music
Filmed in 1954 and released the following year, Bel Ami with Johannes Heesters in the lead role and music by Hanns Eisler is now available on DVD …more information
 

New Eisler song book
20 songs and ballads by Hanns Eisler, previously not available or only in second-hand editions, are included in the volume "Keenen Sechser in der Tasche" …more information



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