Voice and piano
SKU:
BR.SON-513
Composed
by Hanns Eisler. Edited
by Knud Breyer. Voice;
Hardback. Complete Works.
Early modern; Music
post-1945. Complete
Works. 352 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#SON 513. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.SON-513).
ISBN
9790004803721. 9 x 12
inches. German /
English.
Editorial
BoardThomas Phleps
(Music), Georg Witte
(Writings)Editorial
MembersMusic: Oliver
Dahin / Johannes C. Gall,
Writings: Maren
KosterEditorial
CommitteeMusic: Hartmut
Fladt, Werner Grunzweig,
Elmar Juchem, Roland
Kluttig, Giselher
SchubertWritings:
Albrecht Betz, Albrecht
Riethmuller, Jurgen
Schebera, Friederike
WissmannThe editorial
works are supported by
the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft.Sp
ecial volumes are made
possible with the support
of the following
foundations:Klockner-Stif
tung, Lotto-Stiftung,
Hanns und Steffy Eisler
StiftungThe goal of the
Hanns Eisler Complete
Edition (HEGA) is to
present to the public all
available compositions,
writings and letters in
an appropriately
scholarly form. It takes
a historico-critical
approach and seeks to
document the history of
the works and writings by
shedding light on their
transformations, thus
identifying the various
versions as witnesses of
evolving aesthetic and
historical positions.
Eislers complete oeuvre
(only a limited number of
his works had penetrated
the publics awareness up
until the 1990s) first
became the object of an
editorial undertaking
when the Eisler -
Gesammelte Werke (EGW)
was founded by Nathan
Notowicz. It was later
placed under the
direction of Manfred
Grabs and Eberhardt
Klemm, and began issuing
its publications in 1968
through the intermediary
of the Deutscher Verlag
fur Musik in Leipzig.
However, only four
volumes of music and five
volumes of writings were
published. The Hanns
Eisler Complete Edition
pursues the work begun at
that time, although it
has had to fundamentally
revise its editorial
principles. In this
respect, the Hanns Eisler
Complete Edition can be
considered as a
completely new editorial
undertaking. It became
necessary to reconceive
the organization of the
volumes and series as
well as the editorial
guidelines in order to
adapt the standards of
historico-critical
editing generally
applicable today to the
specific and sometimes
singular circumstances of
Eislers works.The
Critical Commentaries
pertaining to the main
volumes follow the music
section or, whenever they
are too extensive, appear
in a special
volume.Series I: Choral
MusicSeries II: Music for
Voice and Instrumental
Ensemble or
OrchestraSeries III:
Music for Voice and
PianoSeries IV:
Instrumental MusicSeries
V: Incidental MusicSeries
VI: Film MusicSeries VII:
Sketches and
FragmentsSeries VIII:
Arrangements of works by
other composersSeries IX:
Writings, Letters and
InterviewsSON 501 has
been awarded the German
Music Edition Prize
2003.SON 502 has been
awarded the German Music
Edition Prize
2007.
The major
upheavals that
transformed society and
musical aesthetics during
the first half of the
20th century also
profoundly affected the
life of Hanns Eisler, as
well as his compositions
and writings. The
importance and scope of
Eislers oeuvre are reason
enough to make his works
accessible to musical
scholarship and practice
in a comprehensive
fashion. Price reduction
for a subscription.
