Originally posted on June 17, 2014:
These previously little known songs and cantatas from exile are poetic and musical commentaries on exile. They are unique testimonies to the way Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler in particual,who had to leave theri homeland on account of their political beliefs, reacted as Communist and anti-Fascist artists to the new situation facing them and Germany after Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933 - the poet in countless little poems, the composer in many miniatures of vocal chamber music.
These previously little known songs and cantatas from exile are poetic and musical commentaries on exile. They are unique testimonies to the way Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler in particual,who had to leave theri homeland on account of their political beliefs, reacted as Communist and anti-Fascist artists to the new situation facing them and Germany after Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933 - the poet in countless little poems, the composer in many miniatures of vocal chamber music.
Eisler continued in established genres while in exil e- the functinal mass song (e.g. "Eineheitsfrontlied"), film and stage music (e.g. "Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe"), choral and orchestal works (e. g. "Gegen den Krieg") - but the songs and cantatas represent a new element in his creative work, emerging only after 1937 and in particular between 1942 and 1944.
We´re glad Verde called our attention to the 111 birthday of Hanns Eisler, which we like to clebrate with this posting.
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