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Current Research News

International conference "Hanns Eisler" (5 January 2010)
On 19 and 20 April 2010, an international conference on Eisler is being held at the Institute of Musical Research at Royal Holloway, University of London. A preliminary programme is available now online.

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Hanns Eisler Archive reopens on 1. September 2009 (12 August 2009)

The archives in Academy of Arts in Berlin will reopen on 1 September 2009 at their former (now renovated) premises on Robert-Koch-Platz in Berlin-Mitte.

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Documents containing unknown Eisler records discovered (21 July 2009)

The Berlin artist Carsten Nicolai discovered a bundle of documents with previously unknown unique records from Hanns Eisler's work on film music in an inaccessible room at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.

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Symposium "Hanns Eisler – Homo politicus" in Vienna (14 January 2009)
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is convening an international Hanns Eisler symposium on 27 and 28 February 2009.

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Volume three of the Eisler-Studien (4 November 2008)

Edited by Peter Schweinhardt, the volume Kompositionen für den Film contains a range of perspectives on Eisler's film music.

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Symposium and retrospective on Eisler's film music (22 May 2008)
In association with the Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin and the Institut für Neue Musik of the University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler“, the International Hanns Eisler Society is organising an international symposium on Hanns Eisler's film music from 31 October to 2 November 2008.

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Previously unknown piano work by Eisler discovered (18 May 2008)

Irma Bauman has discovered a previously unknown piano work in the estate of her late husband Mordecai Bauman. Dedicated to Bauman, who sang tenor during Eisler's first USA tour in 1935, the piano piece with the title "Cowboy Bauman of the wilde [sic] horse" lasts a mere eight bars and includes the performance direction to repeat "ad infinitum". Irma Bauman has kindly given Dr. Jürgen Schebera a copy of the work. A further copy has now also been deposited at the office of the Hanns Eisler Complete Edition.

The publisher correspondence on Composing for the Films (14 April 2008)

Professor David Culbert (Louisiana State University) has received the extensive correspondence on Adorno and Eisler's classic book Composing for the Films from the archive of Oxford University Press. The 99-page "production file" includes a serious of previously unkown letters from Hanns Eisler, Theodor W. Adorno, translator Norbert Guterman, as well as several publisher employees involved in producing the book. In a contribution published in the Eisler-Mitteilungen, Professor Culbert reports on this spectacular discovery: "The production file contains 77 letters and memoranda, March 29, 1939 to June 4, 1947, including 24 letters, all in English, from Adorno to OUP; 3 letters from Eisler to OUP; one letter signed by both Adorno and Eisler to OUP; and 30 letters from OUP to Adorno and Eisler."

Available for the first time: Krížová trojka (27 February 2008)

Produced in Prague in 1948, the Czech Film Krížová trojka (director: Václav Gajer), featuring Eisler's first film music following his return from American exile, is available to researchers for the first time. After years of searching, Dr. Jürgen Schebera received a video copy of the original, which was also shown in dubbed cinema versions in the GDR (with the title Kruez Drei) and in Austria (Das Geheimnis des schwarzen Ritters) in the early 1950s, from a collector. Eisler's score contains virtually the entire instrumental sections of his later Goethe-Rhapsodie (1949) as well as a number of passages from the music to the Hollywood film Jealousy (1945).