Eisler: Orchestral Music
Composer: Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) Instrumentation: Orchestra Binding: Hardcover ISMN: 9790004803448 Size: 9.9 x 12.7 inches Pages: 248 Look Inside! PDF Preview Description The orchestral works that Hanns Eisler composed in the 1930s are significant in two aspects. First, they represent Eisler's return to dodecaphony after a period of some five years when he had refrained from using the method. Secondly, they document a new relationship between functional and absolute music in his oeuvre. Except for the two outer movements of the Kleine Sinfonie (‘Little Symphony'), Op. 29, all the works in the present volume had already been used in a functional context, either in film or in the theatre, before they were reworked as independent concert music. It was common for Eisler to have his functional music performed in the concert hall – especially in the case of his film music – but now that music also appears in a very different context. He had hitherto reused such mu