| Group: | Library – Mediatype: article |
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| Title: | Schönberg und sein Schüler Hanns Eisler: Ein dokumentarischer Abriß |
| Journal: | Die Musikforschung |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Number: | Heft 4 |
| Pages: | 431-461 |
| Publishing date: | 1976.10 |
| Publishing date (source): | Oktobter-Dezember 1976 |
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| Abstract: | Author: "After Berg and Webern, Eisler (1898-1962) was Schoenberg's
most important pupil. The previously unpublished correspondence of Eisler and Schoenberg in the Schoenberg collection of the Library of Congress sheds light on Schoenberg's unusual support of Eisler. Eisler's thankfulness toward the father-figure dates from this time and is expressed in his first essay, 'Arnold Schönberg der musikalische Reaktionär' (1942), a defense of Schoenberg the 'classicist.' Eisler's views on the social function of music, however, were completely contrary to those of Schoenberg. In his correspondence of 1926, Eisler renounced the artistic view of art and the hierarchical structure of the student circle. His compositions 'Palmström,' op. 5, 'Tagebuch,' op. 9, and 'Zeitungsausschnitte,' op. 11, serve as evidence of this process of aesthetic clarification. This coming-to-grips was also not without consequence for Schoenberg: his pieces for men's chorus, op. 35, deal with social themes." |
| Call number: | Magazin : Dümling, Albrecht - Schönberg |
