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Hanns Eisler's Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty

Hanns Eisler's Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty

Hart, Heidi

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 192

Literary CriticismClassical MusicMusic Reference

ISBN10: 164014000X
ISBN13: 9781640140004
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Jun 29 2018
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Traces Eisler's art songs through the political crises of the twentieth century, presenting them as a way to intervene in the nationalist appropriation of aesthetic material.

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 US to the ideological pressures he faced in the early German Democratic Republic. His artsongs are presented not as an escape from the dark times Brecht lamented but rather as a way to intervene in the nationalist appropriation of aesthetic material.

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