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Hanns Eisler (1898–1962) Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Music to the stage play of the same name Text: Bertolt Brecht

solos: 9 vce- ch- 2(Picc).2.2.2. - 4.3.3.1. - timp.perc- guit - 2pno- str: 8vc.8db(minimum)

The music to “Schweyk” is not accompanying stage music in the traditional sense. It is much more: it is the most important of all my compositions to plays by Brecht.
(Hanns Eisler)

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For concert use only - The rights for staged performances can be obtained from Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt

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DV 9090 vce,pno 12 Songs
ISMN: 979-0-2004-9099-2 (44 pages, 23 x 30,5 cm, 183 g, Softcover)
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hire material Nr. 1: 1. Szene. In den höheren Regionen „Meine Herrn Parteigenossen“
solos: BarB - timp - 8vc.8db

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hire material No. 3: Intermezzo
2.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.0 - timp - perc - str / 3'

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hire material Nr. 6: 2. Szene. In den höheren Regionen „Mein lieber Göring“
solos: 2Bar - timp - 8vc.8db

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hire material No. 8: Intermezzo
2.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.0 - timp.perc - str / 3'

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hire material Nr. 9: Beseda-Polka „Mit dem Mitternachtsglockenschlag“
solo: vce(ad lib.) - 1.0.2.0 - 1.1.1.1 - perc - guit - pno - db

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hire material No. 11: Das Lied von der Moldau
solo: vce - 1.0.1.B-clar.0 - 1.1.1.1 - timp.perc - guit - pno - db / 3'

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hire material No. 12: Prelude to scene 3
1.0.2.0 - 1.1.1.1 - timp.perc - pno - db / 5'

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hire material Nr. 13: 3. Szene. In den höheren Regionen „Mein lieber Herr Hitler“
solos: TBar - timp - 8vc.8db

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hire material No. 16: Intermezzo - Transition
2.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp.perc - guit - pno - str / 4'

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The music to “Schweyk” is not accompanying stage music in the traditional sense. It is much more: it is the most important of all my compositions to plays by Brecht.

(Hanns Eisler)

 

Like many works created in exile, this play by Brecht, written in California in the summer of 1943, had to wait many years for its first performance. This took place in Warsaw on 17 January 1957. Eisler composed the instrumental interludes for the production in Frankfurt am Main in 1959. The “Scenes from the Higher Spheres” were composed in 1961 for the French premiere in Lyon.

(Jürgen Schebera)