Brecht, music and culture
Subtitle: Hanns Eisler in conversation with Hans Bunge
By: edited and translated by Sabine Berendse and Paul Clements
Contributors: Bunge, Hans; Berendse, Sabine, editor, translator; Clements, Paul, editor, translator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781472528414; 9781472524355
Subjects: Composers; Interviews
Notes: Originally published as: Hanns Eisler Gespräche mit Hans Bunge. Fragen Sie mehr über Brecht. Leipzig : Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1975.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conversation 1. 14 ways of describing rain ; Meetings between Brecht and Arnold Schoenberg, Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann ; Brecht and music; title: Conversation 2. Galileo ; Hollywood elegies ; Brecht and Feuchtwanger ; Brecht and music for the theatre ; Schweyk in the Second World War; title: Conversation 3. Brecht on Arnold Schoenberg ; Gestic music ; The Caucasian chalk circle ; Döblin's 65th birthday party; title: Conversation 4. Music for The private life of the master race ; Prologue to Galileo ; Eisler and the House Committee on Un-American Activities ; The mother in New York ; Brecht and Stefan Zweig ; Bajazzo; title: Conversation 5. Brecht's Hexameters for the Communist manifesto ; Was Brecht a Marxist? ; Brecht's method of Verfremdung; title: Conversation 6. 'To those born later' ; Boogie-woogie ; Eisler on religion ; Galileo; title: Conversation 7. 'Hotel room 1942' ; Hölderlin; title: Conversation 8. On stupidity in music I ; Hölderlin; title: Conversation 9. Hans Mayer's book on Brecht ; Brecht and Georg Lukács; title: Conversation 10. The music to Schweyk in the Second World War ; On stupidity in music II; title: Conversation 11. Hölderlin poems ; On stupidity in music III; title: Conversation 12. Eisler on classical literature, on the function of art, on cybernetics and on Napoleon; title: Conversation 13. Serious songs ; Eisler's plans for a symphony; title: Conversation 14. Eisler and Bunge compare their experiences as soldiers; title: Afterword. For the first edition of the 'Conversations' / by Stephan Hermlin.