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
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
Internationale
Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft
(IHEG) e.V.
sponsored by the
Hanns and Steffy Eisler Foundation