Hanns Eisler - Compositions

Compositions

  • 1918: Gesang des Abgeschiedenen ("Die Mausefalle" (after Christian Morgenstern); "Wenn es nur einmal so ganz still wäre" (after Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • 1919: Drei Lieder (Li-Tai-Po, Klabund); "Sehr leises Gehn im lauen Wind"; "Spartakus"
  • 1922: Allegro moderato and Waltzes; Allegretto and Andante for Piano
  • 1923: Divertimento; Four Piano Pieces
  • 1925: Eight Piano Pieces
  • 1926: Tagebuch des Hanns Eisler (Diary of Hanns Eisler); 11 Zeitungsausschnitte; Ten Lieder; Three Songs for Men's Chorus (after Heinrich Heine)
  • 1928: "Drum sag der SPD ade"; "Lied der roten Matrosen" ("Song of the Red Sailors", with Erich Weinert); Pantomime (with Béla Balázs); "Kumpellied"; "Red Sailors' Song"; "Couplet vom Zeitfreiwilligen"; "Newspaper's Son"; "Auch ein Schumacher (verschiedene Dichter)"; "Was möchst du nicht" (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn); "Wir sind das rote Sprachrohr"
  • 1929: Tempo der Zeit (Tempo of Time) for chorus and small orchestra, Op. 16; Six Lieder (after Weinert, Weber, Jahnke and Vallentin); "Lied der Werktätigen" ("Song of the Working People"; with Stephan Hermlin)
  • 1930: "Die Maßnahme" ("The Measure", Lehrstück, text of Bertolt Brecht), Op. 20; Six Ballads (after Weber, Brecht, and Walter Mehring); Four Ballads (after B. Traven, Kurt Tucholsky, Wiesner-Gmeyner, and Arendt); Suite No. 1, Op. 23
  • 1931: "Lied der roten Flieger" (after Kirsanow); Four Songs (after Frank, Weinert) from the film Niemandsland'; Three Songs from the film Kuhle Wampe (texts of Brecht); "Ballad of the Pirates", "Song of Mariken", Four Ballads (with Bertolt Brecht); Suite No. 2, Op. 24 ("Niemandsland"); Three Songs after Erich Weinert; "Das Lied vom vierten Mann" ("The Song of the Fourth Man"); "Streiklied" ("Strike Song"); Suite No. 3, Op. 26 ("Kuhle Wampe")
  • 1932: "Ballad of the Women and the Soldiers" (with Brecht); Seven Piano Pieces; Kleine Sinfonie (Little Symphony); Suite No. 4, Music for the Russian film Pesn' o geroyakh (Song of Heros) by Joris Ivens with "Song from the Urals" (after Sergei Tretyakov); reused as instrumental piece Op. 30 ("Die Jugend hat das Wort")
  • 1934: "Einheitsfrontlied" ("United Front Song"); "Saarlied" ("Saar Song"), "Lied gegen den Krieg" ("Song Against War"), "Ballade von der Judenhure Marie Sanders" ("Ballad of the Jews' Whore Marie Sanders"), Songs from Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe; "Sklave, wer wird dich befreien" ("Slave, who will liberate you"; with Brecht); "California Ballad"; Six Pieces; Prelude and Fugue on B–A–C–H (string trio)
  • 1935: "Die Mutter" ("The Mother", with Brecht; cantata)
  • 1935: Lenin Requiem for solo voices, chorus and orchestra
  • 1937:
    • Seven cantatas based on texts taken from Ignazio Silone's novels Bread and Wine and Fontamara for solo voice, strings and woodwind instruments: * Die Römische Kantate, opus 60; * Kantate im Exil (Man lebt von einem Tag zu dem andern), opus 62; * Kantate "Nein" (Kantate im Exil No. 2); * Kantate auf den Tod eines Genossen, opus 64; * Kriegskantate, opus 65; * Die den Mund auf hatten; * Die Weißbrotkantate
    • "Friedenssong" ("Peace Song", after Petere); "Kammerkantaten" ("Chamber Cantatas"); Ulm 1592; "Bettellied "("Begging Song", with Brecht); "Lenin Requiem" (with Brecht)
  • 1938: Cantata on Herr Meyers' First Birthday; String Quartet; Theme and Variations "Der lange Marsch"
  • 1939: Nonet No. 1
  • 1940:*Music for the documentary film "White Flood" (Frontier Films), reused as Chamber Symphony (Kammersymphonie)
  • 1941: Music for the documentary film "A Child went forth", reused as Suite for Septet No. 1, op. 92a
  • 1940/41: Film Music to The Forgotten Village
  • 1940/41: Nonet No. 2
  • 1941: Woodburry-Liederbüchlein (Woodbury Songbook, 20 Songs); "14 Arten den Regen zu beschreiben" (14 ways to describe rain) (for the 70th birthday of Arnold Schoenberg)
  • 1942: "Hollywood-Elegien" ("Hollywood Elegies"; with Brecht) in the Hollywooder Liederbuch (Hollywood Songbook)
  • 1943: Film music for Hangmen Also Die!; Piano Sonata No. 3
  • 1943: Songs to "Schweik in the Second World War"; "Deutsche Misere" (with Brecht)
  • 1946: "Glückliche Fahrt" ("Prosperous Voyage", after Goethe); Incidental music to The Life of Galileo
  • 1946: Film score for A Scandal in Paris
  • 1947: Septet No. 2
  • 1947: music for The Woman on the Beach, film directed by Jean Renoir
  • 1948: Incidental music for Johann Nestroy's play Höllenangst
  • 1948: "Lied über die Gerechtigkeit" ("Song of Justice", after W. Fischer)
  • 1949: Rhapsody; "Lied über den Frieden" ("Song about Peace"); National Anthem of the DDR (text by Becher); "Treffass"
  • 1950: "Mitte des Jahrhunderts" (after Becher); Four Lieder on Die Tage der Commune; Children's Songs (with Brecht)
  • 1952: "Das Lied vom Glück" ("The Song of Happiness"; after Brecht); "Das Vorbild" (after Goethe)
  • 1955: Night and Fog (film), Songs for the film Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti; "Im Blumengarten" ("In the flower garden"); "Die haltbare Graugans"; Three Lieder after Brecht; "Bel Ami"
  • 1956: Vier Szenen auf dem Lande ("Four Scenes from the Country", after Erwin Strittmatter); Children's Songs (after Brecht); "Fidelio" (after Beethoven)
  • 1957: Deutsche Sinfonie (after texts of Bertolt Brecht and Ignazio Silone); Bilder aus der Kriegsfibel; "Die Teppichweber von Kujan-Bulak" ("The Carpetweavers of Kujan-Bulak", with Brecht); "Lied der Tankisten" (text by Weinert); "Regimenter gehn"; "Marsch der Zeit" ("March of Time", after Mayakovsky); Three Lieder (after Mayakovsky and Peter Hacks); "Sputnik-Lied" ("Sputnik Song", text of Kuba)
  • 1958: "Am 1. Mai" ("To May Day", with Brecht)
  • 1959: 40 songs on texts by Kurt Tucholsky for Ernst Busch;
  • 1962: "Ernste Gesänge" ("Serious Songs"), seven Lieder after Friedrich Hölderlin, Viertel, Giacomo Leopardi, Richter, and Stephan Hermlin

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