Hanns Eisler's Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty

by Heidi Hart

Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German poetry to music that both absorbs and disturbs the Lieder tradition. This book traces Eisler's art songs (German: Kunstlieder) through twentieth-century political crises from World War I to Nazi-era exile and from Eisler's postwar deportation from the United States to the ideological pressures he faced in the early German Democratic Republic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164014000X
• ISBN13: 9781640140004
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"