Brecht, music and culture : Hanns Eisler in conversation with Hans Bunge / edited and translated by Sabine Berendse and Paul Clements.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 11, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover ; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes to the German edition by Hans Bunge; Translator's note; Conversation 1; 14 Ways of Describing Rain -- Meetings between Brecht and Arnold Schoenberg, Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann -- Brecht and Music; Conversation 2; Galileo -- Hollywood Elegies -- Brecht and Feuchtwanger -- Brecht and Music for the Theatre -- Schweyk in the Second World War; Conversation 3; Brecht on Arnold Schoenberg -- Gestic Music -- The Caucasian Chalk Circle -- Döblin's 65th Birthday Party; 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 -- BajazzoConversation 5; Brecht's Hexameters for the Communist Manifesto -- Was Brecht a Marxist? -- Brecht's Method of Verfremdung; Conversation 6; 'To Those Born Later' -- Boogie-Woogie -- Eisler on Religion -- Galileo; Conversation 7; 'Hotel Room 1942' -- Hölderlin; Conversation 8; On Stupidity in Music I -- Hölderlin; Conversation 9; Hans Mayer's book on Brecht -- Brecht and Georg Lukács; Conversation 10.

The Music to Schweyk in the Second World War -- On Stupidity in Music IIConversation 11; Hölderlin Poems -- On Stupidity in Music III; Conversation 12; Eisler on Classical Literature, on the Function of Art, on Cybernetics and on Napoleon; Conversation 13; Serious Songs -- Eisler's Plans for a Symphony; Conversation 14; Eisler and Bunge Compare Their Experiences as Soldiers; Afterword: For the first edition of the 'Conversations' by Stephan Hermlin; Notes; Appendix; Index.

The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period of four years, from 1958 until his death in 1962, Eisler offers a compelling and absorbing account of his and Brecht's period of exile in Europe and the USA between 1933 and 1947, and of the quality of artistic, social and intellectual life in post-war East Germany. <i>Brecht, Music and Culture</i> includes a discussion of a number of Brecht's principal plays, including <i>Life of Galileo</i> and <i>The Cauca.

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