Hanns Eisler - Klingende Dokumente II

The historical recordings featured on the four LPs "Klingende Dokumente" offer valuable clues to the life and work of one of the most versatile and influential composers of the 20th century. Alongside Alban Berg and Anton von Webern, Hanns Eisler was the third of Arnold Schoenberg´s pupils to be acknowledged as a "master" by his mentor. He was the first Marxist-inspired musician of talent and stature to succeed, from the late 1920s onwards, in overcoming the social isolation of bourgeois musical art through politically intelligent and socially relevant music written in an advanced idiom.

The included performance of his "Serious Songs" ("Ernste Gesänge") was not directed by Eisler himself. It has been included in this set because the composer made comments on this work in a conversation taped shortly before his death ("To win the future you must come to terms with the past" / "Wer die Zukunft haben will, muss die Vergangenheit bewältigen", from a conversation with Hans Bunge, 14 August 1962). These songs represent his last compositional effort. He did not live to see them performed. 

"Klingende Dokumente II" was released in 1974 on the NOVA label.

Tracklist:

A1	Unterricht bei Schönberg
A2	Die Tage der Kommune
A3	Inhalt und Form
A4	Schwejk im Zweiten Weltkrieg
A5	Über moderne Musik
B1	Bei Prominenten zu Gast
B2	Wer die Zukunft haben will, muß die Vergangenheit bewältigen
B3	Ernste Gesänge für Bariton und Streichorchester

Hanns Eisler - Klingende Dokumente II

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