Hanns Eisler's Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty
(Part of the Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Series)
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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"
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Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections MusicCustomer Reviews
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