Hanns Eisler: A Miscellany

Abstract

Introduction - I don't give a damn about this Spring, Eberhardt Klemm the early music, David Blake on the situation in modern music/on the bourgeois concert business, Hanns Eisler my father, Georg Eisler Massnahme - the vanishing Lehrstuck, John Willet on the invigorating effect of music, Gerd Riemacker Eisler's serialism - concepts and methods, Tim Howell Eisler and Adorno, Gunter Mayer Eisler's An Die Nachgeborenen another concrete utopia, Janos Marothy and Marta Batari Arnold Schoenberg, Hanns Eisler Hanns Eisler's Deutsche Sinfonie, Erik Levi Hollywood and home, Hanns-Werner Heister notes on Dr. Faustus/Johann - an opera libretto, Hanns Eisler on the Faustus debate, Werner Mittenzwei music and politics - theme and variations, Albrecht Betz thoughts on Hanns Eisler, Harry Goldschmidt conversations with Hans Bunge/Eisler as a thinker, Georg Knepler recollections, David Blake.