List of works by Hanns Eisler

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This article covers the most important works by the composer Hanns Eisler .

Works (selection)

The compilation is based on the directories:

A. Vocal music

Works for solos, choir and orchestra

  • Tempo der Zeit (Weber), radio cantata, for alto, bass, speaker, mixed choir and small orchestra op.16 (1929), piano reduction Vienna 1930
  • Californian ballad (Ernst Ottwalt), radio story for tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra op.47 (1932-1934), manuscript
  • Lenin (Brecht), Requiem for alto, baritone, choir and orchestra (1937), Leipzig 1970 (LK 3)
  • Die Mutter (Brecht after Maxim Gorkij), cantata for mezzo-soprano, baritone, several speakers, choir and 2 pianos (1949), Leipzig 1974
  • Song about Peace (Ernst Fischer) for mezzo-soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra (1949/1958), Berlin 1949 (LK 10)
  • Song about Justice (Walter Fischer) for mezzo-soprano, baritone, choir and ensemble (1949) (LK 4)
  • Mid-century (Johannes R. Becher) cantata for soprano solo, choir and orchestra (1950) (partly in: LK 6)
  • New German folk songs (Johannes R. Becher) for voice (choir) and various line-ups (1950/1957/1958), Berlin 1950 (EGW 1/18)
  • Images from the "War Primer" (Brecht), cantata for soprano, tenor, baritone, male choir and ensemble (1957) (LK 10)
  • German Symphony (Brecht / Eisler after Ignazio Silone) for mezzo-soprano, baritone, bass, 2 speakers, mixed choir and orchestra (1935-1958) (vocal movements partly in: LK 3)

A cappella choir

  • 3 men's choir (Heinrich Heine) op.10 (1925), Vienna 1929 (LK 5)
  • 4 pieces (Hanns Eisler) for mixed choir, snare drum, cymbals ad lib. op.13 (1928), Vienna 1929 (LK5)
  • 2 male choirs (anonymous from the 16th century / Eisler) op.14 (1928), Vienna 1929
  • To sing on the streets (David Weber) for mixed choir op.15 (1928), Vienna 1929 (LK 5)
  • 2 male choirs (Joe Hill / Weber) op.17 (1929), Vienna 1929 (LK 5)
  • 2 pieces (anonymous) for male choir op.19 (1929), Vienna 1930
  • 2 pieces (Bertolt Brecht / Eisler) for mixed choir op.21 (1930), Vienna 1931
  • Against the War (Brecht), theme and variations for a cappella choir op.55 (1936/41), Leipzig 1958 (LK3)
  • Woodbury-Liederbüchlein (various lyricists) for women's choir / children's choir a cappella (1941), Leipzig 1964 (LK 6)
  • Canon on the 60th birthday of Lion Feuchtwanger for four-part singing a cappella (1944), manuscript
  • 6 canons (different lyricists) for 2-4 part singing a cappella (1931-1953) (LK 6)
  • Characteristics and characteristics (Goethe), canon for 3 hours. Gesang a cappella (1960), in: Musik und Gesellschaft 10, 1960, no.3, Beil.

Solo singing with orchestra accompaniment

  • Gesang des Abgeschiedenen (based on old Japanese poems) for alto and chamber orchestra (1918), manuscript
  • 3 songs (Li-Tai-Pe / Oshen / Klabund) for medium voice and chamber orchestra (1919), manuscript
  • Happy Journey (Goethe) for soprano and orchestra (1946-1949) (piano reduction in: LK 2)
  • National anthem of the GDR (beaker) for singing and various line-ups (1949), Leipzig 1949
  • Rhapsody (Goethe) for soprano and orchestra (1949), Leipzig 1950
  • The Carpet Weavers by Kujan-Bulak (Brecht) Cantata for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1957), Leipzig 1970 (LK 4)
  • Das Vorbild (Goethe), triptych for alto and orchestra (1952-1959), Leipzig 1970 (LK 4)

Solo singing with ensemble accompaniment

  • “If only it were so very quiet for once…” (Rainer M.Rilke) for alto, violin, viola and cello (1918), manuscript
  • Palmström (Christian Morgenstern) for speaking voice, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello op.5 (1924), Vienna 1926 (LK 6)
  • Diary of Hanns Eisler (Eisler), cantata for soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, violin and piano op.9 (1926), Vienna 1927
  • 4 ballads (Bruno Traven / Kurt Tucholsky / Anna Gmeiner / Julian Arendt) for voice (also male choir) and various ensembles op.22 (1929/30), individual editions Berlin 1931 and Berlin 1933 (partly in: LK 5)
  • Solidarity song (Brecht; from the music for the film Kuhle Wampe or Whom does the world belong to?) For singing and various line-ups (1931), Berlin 1932 a. a. (Vocal score: LK2)
  • Lied des Kampfbundes (Erich Weinert) for voice, alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, percussion, banjo and piano (1932), singing s. Berlin 1961
  • "Who had their mouth open" (Silone), cantata for voice, 2 clarinets, viola and violoncello (1937) (LK 4, EGW 1/10)
  • The Gottseibeiuns cantata (Brecht) for voice (children's choir) and piano / string quartet (1937) (LK 1 [version for voice and piano], EGW 1/10)
  • The Roman Cantata (Silone) for voice, 2 clarinets, viola and violoncello (1937) (LK 4, EGW 1/10)
  • The white bread cantata (Silone) for voice, 2 clarinets, viola and violoncello (1937) (EGW 1/10)
  • The prison cantata (text probably by Eisler) for voice, 2 clarinets, viola and cello (1937) (EGW 1/10)
  • Cantata on the death of a comrade (Silone) for voice, 2 clarinets (version 1949: flute, clarinet), viola and cello (1937/1949), Vienna 1972 (LK 2 [KlA], EGW 1/10)
  • War Cantata (Silone) for voice, 2 clarinets, viola and violoncello (1937), Vienna 1972 (EGW 1/10)
  • "One lives from one day to the next" (Silone), cantata for voice, 2 clarinets, viola and cello (1937), Vienna 1972 (EGW 1/10)
  • No (Silone), cantata for voice and string quartet (1937) (LK 4, EGW 1/10)
  • Beggar's Song (Brecht) for voice, violin and violoncello or voice and piano (1937) (LK 1)
  • Two sonnets (Brecht) for alto, clarinet and bass clarinet (1937) (performed by piano: LK 1)
  • Cantata for Mr. Meier's first birthday (Sylvia and Joachim Schumacher / Harry Robin / H. And Lou Eisler) for voice, viola and piano (1938) (EGW 1/10)
  • Friedenslied (Brecht after Pablo Neruda) for voice, clarinet, banjo / electric guitar, piano and double bass (1950) (LK 4)
  • Legend of the creation of the book Taoteking on the Way to Emigration (Brecht) for voice and piano (1957) (LK 4, EGW 1/10)
  • It works better without capitalists / Sputnik (Cuba) for vocals and various line-ups (1957), Berlin 1958 (EGW 1/18)
  • Ernste Gesänge (Friedrich Hölderlin / Berthold Viertel / Giacomo Leopardi / Helmut Richter / Stephan Hermlin) for baritone and string orchestra (1939-1962), Leipzig 1963 (LK 10)

Songs

  • Galgenlieder (Morgenstern) (1917), manuscript
  • Unter Feinden (Friedrich Nietzsche) (1918), manuscript
  • "I have had the summons" (Rabindranath Tagore) (1918), manuscript
  • 6 songs (Matthias Claudius / Hans Bethge / Klabund) op.2 (1922-23), Vienna 1925 (LK 1 and 5 passim, EGW 1/16)
  • Newspaper clippings (anonymous / Jaroslav Hasek / Erwin Ratz) for voice and piano op.11 (1925-1927), Vienna 1929 (EGW 1/16)
  • Ballad from the Soldiers (Brecht) (1928) (LK 1)
  • The red Wedding (Weinert) (1929), Munich 1937 (LK 5)
  • Comintern (Franz Jahnke / Maxim Vallentin) / Song of the Working People (Stephan Hermlin) (1929/1949/1957), Berlin 1929 a. a. (SC 1)
  • Stamp Song (Weber) (1929/1958), Berlin 1931 u. a.
  • What do you not want (from: Des Knaben Wunderhorn) (1929) (EGW 1/16)
  • The secret deployment (Weinert) (1930), Berlin 1931 a. a.
  • In Weißensee (Tucholsky) (1930) (LK 9)
  • "When the hedgehogs in the evening hour" (Tucholsky) (1930) (LK 9)
  • Ballad book (Weber / Brecht / Walter Mehring) op.18 (1931), Vienna 1931 and Vienna 1932 (6 single prints: op.18, 1-6; partly arranged for voice and ensemble)
  • Pesnja krastiych letcikov (Song of the Red Aviators) (Semeon Kirsanov) (1931), Munich 1932
  • 4 lullabies (for working-class mothers) (Brecht) op.33 (1932), Paris 1934 (LK 1)
  • Histoire du cheval (Jacques Prévert) for two-part voice and piano (1933)
  • Das Saarlied (Brecht) (1934), in: Our Time, 1934, issue 11 (= Saar special issue)
  • United Front Song (Brecht) (1934), Paris [1935] a. a. (SC 1)
  • Ballad by the Jew whore Marie Sanders (Brecht) (1935) (LK 2)
  • Hammer and Sichel (Brecht) (1935), Munich [1937] and Berlin 1950 (LK 1)
  • War your war (Brecht) (1935), Munich 1937
  • Resolution (Brecht) (1935/1956), Madrid 1937 (LK 6)
  • Himne per al'Olimpiada Popular (Joseph M. a de Sagarra) (1936), Barcelona 1936
  • Mother Bloor: A Song (Kenneth Hunter) (1936), New York 1936
  • German Song 1937 (Brecht) (1936), Munich 1937 (LK 1)
  • The Song of January 7th (Ludwig Renn) (1937) (LK 5)
  • The plum tree (Brecht) (1937) (EGW 1/16)
  • The robber and his servant (Brecht) (1937) (LK 2)
  • Song of the ship's boy (Margarete Steffin) (1937), manuscript
  • Marcha del 5 ° Regimento (José H. Petere) (1937), Madrid 1937
  • Spanish song 1937 (Brecht) (1937) (LK 2)
  • Ulm 1592 (Brecht) (1937) (LK 1)
  • Two elegies (Brecht) (1937), Vienna 1945 (LK 1, EGW 1/16)
  • 3 Songs for the Madison Square Garden (Hoffman R. Hays) (1938), manuscript
  • 8 songs (Brecht / William Shakespeare / anonymous / Eduard Mörike) (1939/40) (LK 1 passim, EGW 1/16)
  • Hollywooder song book (various lyricists) (1942/43), (LK 1, 2, 6 passim [Ausw.], EGW 1/16)
  • Song of a German Mother (Brecht) (1943) (LK 2)
  • Mark Brandenburg, du sandige (Robert Gilbert) (1946), manuscript
  • The poplar from Karlsplatz (Brecht) (1950) (LK 4)
  • You, Your People's Best (Mug) (1950), manuscript
  • Song for Bucharest (Hermlin) (1953) (EGW 1/18)
  • Ardens sed virens (Brecht) (1954) (LK 2)
  • And there are the dark times (Brecht) (1954) (LK 2, EGW 1/16)
  • Of the kindness of the world (Brecht) (1954) (LK 1, EGW 1/16)
  • What I Lived There (Goethe) (1954) (EGW 1/16)
  • New songs 1955-1956 (various lyricists) (LK 2 passim, EGW 1/16)
  • How the wind blows (Brecht) (1955) (LK 2, EGW 1/16)
  • Wienerlied (anonymous) (1955) (LK 2, EGW 1/16)
  • The Smoking Man (Tucholsky) (1956) (LK 9)
  • Ideal and Reality (Tucholsky) (1956) (LK 9)
  • Song of the Tankists (Weinert) (1956), Berlin 1956 (with ensemble accompaniment: LK 5)
  • Printemps allemand (Karl Kraus) (1956) (LK 2, EGW 1/16)
  • Ballad from the Crusade (Cuba) (1957), Berlin 1957
  • Recovery (Becher) (1957) (EGW 1/16)
  • 4 children's songs (Brecht) (1935-1958) (LK 5)
  • To die Ewig-Yesterday (Klabund) (1958), manuscript
  • To the later born (Brecht) (1958) (EGW 1/16)
  • Die Krücken (Brecht) (1958), manuscript
  • Freedom and Democracy (Brecht) (1958), manuscript (fragment)
  • Across the Elbe (Erich Brehm) (1958) (EGW 1/18)
  • Get up (Hermlin) (1958) (EGW 1/18)
  • Field crops (Tucholsky) (1930/1959) (LK 9)
  • Couplet for the beer department (Tucholsky) (1959) (LK 9)
  • The Groschen (Rose Nyland) (1959), manuscript
  • Unity and Law and Freedom (Tucholsky) (1959) (LK 9)
  • Olle Kamellen (Tucholsky) (1959) (LK 9)
  • Return to nature (Tucholsky) (1959) (LK 9)
  • Mother's hands (1929) (Tucholsky) (1959) (LK 9)
  • Unconcerned about my wisdom (Hölderlin) (1959) (LK 5, EGW 1/16)
  • The Trench (Tucholsky) (1959-1961) (LK 9)
  • The plum tree (Brecht) (1960) (LK 6, EGW 1/16)
  • The Successor (Tucholsky) (1960) (EGW 1/18)
  • We win (Brehm) (1960), Berlin 1960
  • But of all people? (Weinert) (1961), Berlin 1975
  • German Song (1923) (Tucholsky) (1961) (LK 9)
  • The waters went to Tale (Hermlin) (1961) (EGW 1/18)
  • Song of the Cobblestones (Weinert) (1961), Leipzig 1972
  • Motto (On a Chinese tea root lion) (Brecht) (1961) (LK 6, EGW 1/16)

B. stage works

Musical theater

  • One hundred and fifty marks (Weber), opera question. (1927-1929)
  • The Measure (Brecht), didactic piece for tenor, 3 speakers, mixed choir, 3 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones, percussion and piano op.20 (December 13, 1930 Berlin), piano reduction Vienna 1931
  • The mother (Brecht after M. Gorkij), music theater (Jan. 17, 1932 Berlin / Nov. 19, 1935 New York / Jan. 12, 1951 Berlin) (LK 7)
  • The Round Heads and the Pointed Heads (Brecht), Musiktheater op.45 (November 4, 1936 Copenhagen [arr. By Borge Roger-Henrichsen]; October 21, 1962 Hanover) (piano reduction partly in: LK 1-3 passim)
  • Goliath (Brecht), opera fragment (1937-1944)
  • Galileo / Leben des Galilei (Brecht), music theater (July 31, 1947 Los Angeles / December 7, 1947 New York / June 8, 1956 Vienna / January 15, 1957 Berlin) (partly in: LK 4)
  • Hell angst (Johann N.Nestroy), farce with music (September 16, 1948 Vienna), overture (under the title Overture to a comedy) Leipzig 1951
  • Johann Faustus (Eisler), opera fragment, libretto Berlin 1952
  • Schweyk in the Second World War (Brecht) (January 17, 1957 Warsaw; May 22, 1959 Frankfurt am Main; October 1961 Paris) (LK 8)

Incidental music

  • Homesickness (Franz Jung) (January 8, 1928 Berlin)
  • Hello, colleague young workers (Maxim Vallentin) (March 31, 1928 Chemnitz), missing
  • Calcutta, May 4 (Lion Feuchtwanger) (June 12, 1928 Berlin)
  • Danton's Death (Georg Büchner) (31 Aug 1929 Berlin)
  • The Merchant of Berlin (Walter Mehring) (September 6, 1929 Berlin)
  • The Last Night (based on: The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus) (Jan. 15, 1930 Berlin)
  • Army Without Heroes (Anna Gmeiner) (Jan. 26, 1930 Berlin)
  • Kamrad Kasper (Paul Schurek) (April 1, 1932 Berlin)
  • Draw the Fires (Ernst Toller) (Feb. 11, 1935 Manchester)
  • Night Music (Clifford Odets) (Feb 22, 1940 New York)
  • Medicine Show (Oscar Saul / Hoffman R. Hays) (Apr. 12, 1940 New York)
  • The Private Life of the Master Race (Fear and Misery of the Third Reich) (Brecht) (June 12, 1945 New York) (LK 6)
  • Eulenspiegel or Schabernack on Schabernack (Nestroy) (April 1, 1953 Vienna)
  • Katzgraben ( Erwin Strittmatter ) - Director: Bertolt Brecht ( Berliner Ensemble ) (23 May 1953 Berlin) (partly [under the title 4 Scenes in the Country] in: LK 6)
  • Volpone (Ben Johnson / Brecht) (Sept. 2, 1953 Vienna)
  • Lysistrata (Leo Greiner after Aristophanes) (Nov. 27, 1953 Vienna)
  • Hamlet (William Shakespeare) (September 9, 1954 Vienna)
  • Winter Battle ( Johannes R. Becher ) - Director: Bertolt Brecht / Manfred Wekwerth (Berliner Ensemble) (Jan. 12, 1955 Berlin)
  • Theater stories ( Johann Nestroy ) - Director: Emil Stöhr ( Deutsches Theater Berlin ) (March 2, 1955 Berlin)
  • The First Cavalry Army ( Wsewolod Wischnewski ) (February 21, 1956 Berlin)
  • The Hero of the Western World ( John Millington Synge / Peter Hacks ) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Peter Palitzsch (Berliner Ensemble) (May 11, 1956 Berlin)
  • Days of the Commune (Brecht) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenschert (Berliner Ensemble) (Nov. 17, 1956 Karl-Marx-Stadt) (partly in: LK 6)
  • The Face of Simone Machard (Brecht) (March 8, 1957 Frankfurt am Main) (partly in: LK 5)
  • Life of Galilei ( Bertolt Brecht ) - Director: Erich Engel (Berliner Ensemble) (1957)
  • Sturm (Vladimir N. Bill-Belozerkovskij) (December 3, 1957 Berlin)
  • Sweat bath (Vladimir Majakovskij) (February 2, 1959 Berlin) (partly [March of Time] in: LK 5)
  • Wilhelm Tell ( Friedrich Schiller ) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin) (March 10, 1962 Berlin)

C. Film music

  • Opus III (directed by Walter Ruttmann) (1927)
  • No Man's Land (together with Kurt Schröder) (Director: Victor Trivias) (1931)
  • Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Director: Slatan Dudow) (1932)
  • Pesn o Gerojach (Heldenlied) (Direction: Joris Ivens) (1932)
  • Dans les Rues (Director: Victor Trivias) (1933)
  • Le grand Jeu (Eng .: One Night in Morocco) (Direction: Jacques Feyder) (1933/34)
  • Nieuwe Granden (Direction: Joris Ivens) (1933/34)
  • Abdul the Damned (Direction: Karl Grüne) (1935)
  • The 400 Million (Direction: Joris Ivens) (1938/39)
  • Pete Roleum and His Cousins (Director: Joseph Losey) (1939)
  • The Living Land (Directed by Helen Hill) (1939)
  • A Child Went Forth (Director: Joseph Losey) (1940)
  • White Flood (Director: Osgood Fields) (1940)
  • The Forgotten Village (Direction: Herbert Kline) (1941)
  • Regen (silent film, Holland 1929; directed by Joris Ivens) (1941)
  • Hangmen Also Die (German: Executioners Die) (Director: Fritz Lang) (1942/43)
  • None But the Lonely Heart (Directed by Clifford Odets) (1944)
  • Jealousy (Director: Gustav Machaty) (1945)
  • Spanish Main (German: Die Seeteufel von Cartagena) (Director: Frank Borzage) (1945)
  • Deadline at Dawn (Direction: Harold Clurman) (1945/46)
  • A Scandal in Paris (Director: Douglas Sirk) (1946)
  • The Woman on the Beach (German: Die Frau am Strand) (Direction: Jean Renoir) (1946/47)
  • So Well Remembered (Directed by Edward Dmytryk) (1947)
  • Koizovka trojka (German: Treff As or three of clubs) (Director: Vaclav Gajer) (1948)
  • Our Daily Bread (Direction: Slatan Dudow) (1949)
  • The Council of Gods (Director: Kurt Maetzig) (1949/50)
  • Wilhelm Pieck - The life of our President (Direction: Andrew Thorndike) (1950/51)
  • The Fates of Women (Director: Slatan Dudow) (1952)
  • Fate at the steering wheel (Direction: Aldo Vergano) (1953/54)
  • Bel Ami (Director: Louis Daquin) (1955)
  • Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti (Direction: Alberto Cavalcanti) (1955)
  • Nuit et Brouillard (Eng .: Night and Fog) (Director: Alain Resnais) (1955)
  • Les Sorcières de Salem (Eng .: The Witches of Salem) (Director: Raymond Rouleau) (1957)
  • Fledermaus Squadron (Director: E. Engel) (1958)
  • The lost face (Direction: Erich-Alexander Winds) (1958)
  • La rabouilleuse (Eng .: cloudy water) (director: Louis Daquin) (1959/60)
  • Aktion J (Director: Walter Heynowski) (1961)
  • Esther (Director: Robert Trösch) (1962)

D. Instrumental music

Orchestral works

  • Suite for orchestra No. 1 op.23 (1930), manuscript
  • Suite for orchestra No. 2 (No Man's Land) op.24 (1931), manuscript
  • Suite for orchestra No. 3 (Kuhle Wampe) op.26 (1931/1937), manuscript
  • Small Symphony Op. 29 (1931/32), Munich 1937 and Berlin 1962
  • Suite for orchestra No. 4 (The youth has the word) op.30 (1932), manuscript
  • Suite for orchestra No. 5 (Dans les Rues) op.34 (1933), Leipzig 1977 (EGW 2/3)
  • Suite for orchestra No. 6 (Le grand Jeu) op.40 (1933/34), Leipzig 1977 (EGW 2/3)
  • Five orchestral pieces (1938-1940), Leipzig 1961
  • Scherzo for solo violin and orchestra (1938), manuscript
  • Theme with variations (The Long March) (1938), manuscript
  • Chamber Symphony (1940), Berlin 1968
  • “Days of the Commune” suite (1957), manuscript
  • "Storm" suite (1957), Berlin 1964
  • "Winter Battle" suite (1954-1959), Berlin 1961
  • Leipzig Symphony (fragment) (1959-1962)

Chamber music

  • Scherzo for string trio (1920), Leipzig 1999
  • Divertimento for wind quintet op.4 (1923), Vienna 1983
  • Duo for violin and violoncello op.7,1 (1924), Vienna 1925
  • Sonata for flute, oboe and harp (1935), Leipzig 1976
  • Prelude and fugue on BACH for string trio op.46 (1934-1936), in: Musica Viva 1, 1936, H. 2, Beil .; Leipzig 1973
  • Sonata (travel sonata) for violin and piano (1937), Leipzig 1959
  • String quartet (1938), Leipzig 1961
  • Nonet No. 1 (Variations) for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn and string quintet (1939), Leipzig 1962
  • Nonet No.2 for flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion, 3 violins and double bass (1941), Berlin 1965
  • Fourteen ways to describe the rain, quintet for flute, clarinet, violin / viola, cello and piano op.70 (1941), Leipzig 1960
  • Septet No.1 (Variations on American Children's Songs) for flute, clarinet, bassoon and string quartet (1949-1947), Berlin 1957
  • Septet No. 2 (Circus) for flute, clarinet, bassoon, 2 violins, viola and violoncello (1947), Berlin 1958

Piano music

  • 5 piano pieces (1918-1922), manuscript
  • 1. Sonata for piano op.1 (1923), Vienna 1924
  • Piano pieces op.3 (1923), Vienna 1926
  • 2. Sonata for piano in the form of Variations op.6 (1924), Leipzig 1960
  • Piano pieces op.8 (1925), Leipzig 1958
  • Little music to ventilate sentimental moods (1930), manuscript
  • Piano Pieces for Children op.31 (1932), Paris 1934; Munich 1935; Leipzig 1958
  • 7 piano pieces op.32 (1932), Paris 1934; Munich 1935; Leipzig 1952
  • Sonatine (Gradus ad parnassum) op.44 (1934), Leipzig 1958
  • Variations for piano (1941), Leipzig 1959
  • 3rd sonata for piano (1943), Leipzig 1960
  • 3 fugues for piano (1946), manuscript
  • Improvisation (For Ernst Bloch in friendship on his 70th birthday) (1955), manuscript

E. Adaptations of other works

  • A. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7, 1st and 3rd movement, arranged for clarinet, horn, harmonium, piano, 2 violins, viola, violoncello and double bass (1920), manuscript
  • A. Schönberg: Natur op.8,1, arranged for chamber orchestra (1921), manuscript
  • R. Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, arranged for the film adaptation by Karl Grune (1936)
  • R. Goguel: Die Moorsoldaten (Johann Esser / Wolfgang Langhoff), arranged for two-part voice and piano (1935), Munich 1937
  • P. Degeyter: Die Internationale, arranged for wind orchestra (1949), Berlin 1949
  • L. van Beethoven: Fidelio, arranged for the film adaptation by Walter Felsenstein (1955)
  • C. Millöcker: Gasparone, set up for the filming by Karl Paryla (1954-1956)

F. Fonts (selection)

  • Arnold Schönberg, the musical reactionary , in: Arnold Schönberg on his fiftieth birthday, special issue of the Musikblätter des Anbruch 6, 1924, 312f (EGW 3/1)
  • From old and new music , in: Music and the present. A series of leaflets 3, [1925] (EGW 3/1)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven. On the 100th anniversary of his death on March 26 , in: Die Rote Fahne 10, March 22, 1927 (EGW 3/1), 11
  • Music and understanding of music , in: Die Rote Fahne 10, Nov. 16, 1927 (EGW 3/1)
  • The new religiosity in music , in: Die Rote Fahne 11, Jan. 22, 1928 (EGW 3/1)
  • From the bourgeois concert business , in: Die Rote Fahne 11, April 15, 1928 (EGW 3/1)
  • Relative stabilization of the music. On P. Hindemith's "Cardillac" in the Kroll Opera House , in: Die Rote Fahne 11, July 3, 1928 (EGW 3/1)
  • On the situation of modern music , manuscript (EGW 3/1)
  • Newspaper criticism , in: Melos 8, 1929, 111-116 (EGW 3/1)
  • Progress in the workers music movement , in: Kampfmusik 1, 1931, no. 4, 2 (EGW 3/1)
  • The builders of a new musical culture (1931), manuscript (EGW 3/1)
  • Some advice on rehearsing the measure , in: Kampfmusik 2, 1932, no.3, 6 (EGW 3/1)
  • Our Combat Music , in: Illustrierte Rote Post 2, 1932, H. 11 (EGW 3/1)
  • Blast furnace music. Sound film work in the Soviet Union , in: Illustrierte Rote Post 2, 1932, no. 15, 8 (attachment) (EGW 3/1)
  • On the Crisis of Bourgeois Music (1932), manuscript (EGW 3/1)
  • History of the German Worker's Music Movement from 1848 , in: Music Vanguard, 1935, March / April, 33-48 (EGW 3/1)
  • Something about the behavior of working-class singers and musicians in Germany (1935), manuscript (EGW 3/1)
  • Report on the creation of a workers' song (1935), manuscript (EGW 3/1)
  • Musical journey through America (1935), manuscript (EGW 3/1)
  • Music and Music Politics in Fascist Germany (1935), manuscript (EGW 3/1)
  • Nekolik slov o prokroru v hudbe (Something about progress in music) , in: Rytmus 3, 1937, no.3 , 26f (German version in: EGW 3/1)
  • Avant-garde art and the popular front (together with E. Bloch), in: Die neue Weltbühne 23, 1937, 1568-1573 (EGW 3/1)
  • The art of inheriting (together with E. Bloch), in: Die neue Weltbühne 24, 1938, 13-18 (EGW 3/1)
  • Labor, Labor Movement and Music. Speech to the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (1938), manuscript (EGW 3/1)
  • Lectures on the Social History of Music. Music as Human Expression (1938/39), manuscript (EGW 3/3)
  • Composing for the Films (together with Th. W. Adorno), New York 1947; German composition for the film , Berlin 1949 (EGW 3/4)
  • Basic social issues in modern music (1948), manuscript (EGW 3/2)
  • As I understand Nestroy. About the music to “Hell fear” , in: Österreichisches Tagebuch 3, 1948, H. 18, 15
  • Some about the relationship between text and music (notes on a Hegel seminar) (1950), manuscript (EGW 3/2)
  • Notes on "Dr. Faustus " (1951), manuscript (EGW 3/2)
  • Letter to West Germany , in: Sinn und Form 3, 1951, H. 6, 14-24
  • What can the opera composer learn from Richard Wagner? (1952), Theater der Zeit 1, 1959, 11 (EGW 3/2)
  • Arnold Schönberg , in: Sinn und Form 7, 1955, 5-15 (EGW 3/2)
  • Bertolt Brecht and the music , in: Sinn und Form 9, 1957, 2nd special issue Bertolt Brecht, 439-441
  • On stupidity in music , in: Sinn und Form 10, 1958, 442-445, 541-545, 763-766 (EGW 3/2)
  • Mozart (notes by a composer) , in: Program booklet of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Jan. 30, 1959, 3-7 (EGW 3/2)
  • Content and form , in: Musik und Gesellschaft 12, 1962, 541-546 (EGW 3/2)

Total expenditure

A complete and thematic directory of Eisler's works is currently (2020) not available. The estate is in the Hanns Eisler archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts.

So far there have been three approaches to a complete edition of his works:

  • [LK] - songs and cantatas . From 1954 Hanns Eisler worked together with the editors of the Leipzig publisher Breitkopf & Härtel on a ten-volume edition of part of his vocal work. The first volume appeared in 1955, the last in 1966.
  • [EGW] - Hanns Eisler Collected Works . From 1968 to 1983, founded by N. Notowicz, ed. by Stephanie Eisler and Munich Grabs on behalf of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR, Leipzig, 9 volumes (mainly writings) appeared in the series:
    • I. Vocal music
    • II. Instrumental music
    • III. Writings and documents
  • [HEGA] - Hanns Eisler Complete Edition . Since 1996 the International Hanns Eisler Society has been working on a Hanns Eisler Complete Edition (HEGA), published by the International Hanns Eisler Society in collaboration with Stephanie Eisler (†) and the archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts ; published by Breitkopf & Härtel.

Hanns Eisler Complete Edition (HEGA) 1996 – probably 2022

It is to appear in 9 series (as of 2020) with the following volumes:

Series I: Choral Music

  • 1 German Symphony
  • 2 oratorio works I.
    • Of poverty and death
    • Tempo of Time op.16
    • Californian ballad op.47
  • 3 oratorio works II
    • Lenin (Requiem)
    • Mid century
    • Images from the "War Primer"
  • 4 The mother, concert versions
  • 5 a cappella choirs 1925–1932
  • 6 a cappella choirs 1935–1962
  • 7 Music for choir and piano or ensemble
  • 8 Music for choir and orchestra

Series II: Music for voice and ensemble or orchestra

  • 1 Music for voice and ensemble 1918–1932
  • 2 Music for voice and ensemble 1933–1938
  • 3 Music for voice and ensemble 1949–1961
  • 4 Music for voice and orchestra

Series III: Music for voice and piano

  • 1 songs for voice and piano 1917–1921
  • 2 songs for voice and piano 1922–1932
  • 3 songs for voice and piano 1933–1937
  • 4 songs for voice and piano 1938–1947
  • 5 songs for voice and piano 1949–1956
  • 6 songs for voice and piano 1957–1962

Series IV: Instrumental Music

  • 1 orchestral music
    • Small symphony op.29
    • Scherzo with solo violin
    • Five orchestral pieces
    • Theme with variations (The Long March)
  • 2 orchestra suites I
    • Suite for orchestra No. 1 op.23
    • Suite for orchestra No. 2 op. 24 (“No man's land”)
  • 3 orchestral suites II
    • Suite for orchestra No. 3 op. 26 ("Kuhle Wampe")
    • Suite for orchestra No. 4 op. 30 ("Pesn 'o gerojach")
  • 4 orchestral suites III
    • Suite for orchestra No. 5 op. 34 ("Dans les rues")
    • Suite for orchestra No. 6 op. 40 ("Le grand jeu")
  • 5 orchestral suites IV
    • Berlin suite
    • Puntila suite
    • “Days of the Commune” suite
    • Storm Suite
    • Winter battle suite
  • 6 Chamber Symphony
  • 7 nonets
  • 8 septets
  • 9 chamber music
    • Scherzo for string trio
    • Divertimento for wind quintet op.4
    • Duo for violin and violoncello op.7 No. 1
    • Prelude and fugue on BACH for string trio op.46
    • Sonata movement for flute, oboe and harp op.49
    • Sonata for violin and piano
    • String quartet
    • Fourteen ways to describe rain
    • Moment Musical (for clarinet)
  • 10 Piano Music I - Sonatas and Variations
    • Sonata for piano op.1
    • Second sonata for piano (in the form of variations) op.6
    • Variations for piano
    • Third sonata for piano
  • 11 Piano Music II - Piano Pieces

Series V: incidental music

  • 1 The measure
  • 2 The mother
  • 3 The round heads and the pointed heads
  • 4 life of Galileo
  • 5 fear of hell
  • 6 Schweyk in World War II
  • 7-10 more incidental music

Series VI: Film Music

  • 1 Opus III / No Man's Land - and early film music fragments
  • 2 Kuhle Wampe / Pesn 'o gerojach / Nieuwe Gronden
  • 3 Dans les rues / Le grand jeu
  • 4 Abdul the Damned / Pagliacci
  • 5 The 400 million
  • 6 Pete Roleum and His Cousins
  • 7 The Living Land / White Flood
  • 8 The Forgotten Village
  • 9 A Child Went Forth / Regen / The Circus
  • 10 The Grapes of Wrath / Hangmen Also Die
  • 11 None but the Lonely Heart
  • 12 Jealousy
  • 13 The Spanish Main
  • 14 Deadline at Dawn
  • 15 A Scandal in Paris
  • 16 The Woman on the Beach
  • 17 So Well Remembered
  • 18 Křížová trojka
  • 19 Our daily bread / council of the gods
  • 20 Wilhelm Pieck / and other DEFA films
  • 21 Fate at the steering wheel / Bel Ami
  • 22 Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti
  • 23 Nuit et brouillard
  • 24 The witches of Salem / Fledermaus squadron / The lost face
  • 25 Cloudy water / sequences from Aktion J / Esther / Unbändiges Spanien

Series VII: Sketches and Fragments

  • Number of bands not yet determined

Series VIII: Arrangements of other works

  • 2 volumes - including the arrangements for the association for private musical performances

Series IX: Writings

  • 1.1 Collected Writings, 1921–1935
  • 1.2 Collected Writings, 1935–1948
  • 1.3 Collected Writings, 1948–1953
  • 1.4 Collected Writings, 1953–1962
  • 2 composition for the film
  • 3.1 Johann Faustus 1
  • 3.2 Johann Faustus 2
  • 4.1 Letters, 1907–1943
  • 4.2 Letters, 1944–1951
  • 4.3 Letters, 1952–1956
  • 4.4 Letters, 1957–1962
  • 5.1 Conversations with Hans Bunge
  • 5.2 Conversations with Nathan Notowicz and others

Songs and Cantatas (LK) 1955–1966

  • Volume 1/2: 145 songs and ballads (voice and piano)
  • Volume 3: Seven parts from the German Symphony and the Lenin Requiem (score) , Against the War (mixed choral setting a cappella)
  • Volume 4: 16 songs and ballads (song, piano), the score for The Carpet Weavers by Kujan-Bulak and the incidental music for the Life of Galilei (piano reduction).
  • Volume 5: 30 songs, ballads and choirs (vocals, small orchestra), incidental music and songs for Die Gesichte der Simone Marchard (score)
  • Volume 6: Woodbury song booklet , incidental music and songs for The Days of the Commune, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich , Katzgraben (1956, text: Erwin Strittmatter) , six other songs and ballads, Palmström .
  • Volume 7: incidental music for The Mother (score)
  • Volume 8: Incidental music for Schweijk in World War II (score)
  • Volume 9: 37 songs based on texts by Kurt Tucholsky, vocals and piano as well as a small orchestra.
  • Volume 10: Serious chants , pictures from the «War Primer» and a song about peace (score).

Volume 1/2 - 145 songs and ballads (voice and piano)

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  1. The Ballad of the Water Wheel (Bertolt Brecht)
  2. Praise of socialism (Bertolt Brecht)
  3. "Grace doesn't save effort" (Bertolt Brecht)
  4. To Hope (Holderlin Fragment)
  5. Praise for learning (Bertolt Brecht)
  6. To a city (Hölderlin fragment)
  7. Ulm 1592 (Bertolt Brecht)
  8. Easter Sunday (Bertolt Brecht)
  9. Pantry 1942 (Bertolt Brecht)
  10. Spring (Bertolt Brecht)
  11. Hotel room 1942 (Bertolt Brecht)
  12. Elegy 1943 (Hölderlin fragment)
  13. "The northeast blows" (Hölderlin fragment)
  14. About sprinkling the garden (Bertolt Brecht)
  15. The homecoming (Bertolt Brecht)
  16. Hollywood (Bertolt Brecht)
  17. “One lives from one day to the next” cantata in exile
  18. The homeland (after Hölderlin)
  19. The God-be-with-us cantata (Bertolt Brecht)
  20. Beggar song
  21. In the morning ( Anakreon fragment, translated by Ed.Mörike )
  22. The Landscape of Exile (Bertolt Brecht)
  23. Winter saying
  24. In the pastures
  25. A dark cloud is coming in (text from the Thirty Years War )
  26. A child's war song
  27. The field preacher ( Schweyk by J. Hašek )
  28. Spring speech on a tree in the backyard
  29. Memory (Hölderlin fragment)
  30. On the run (Bertolt Brecht)
  31. The son (Bertolt Brecht)
  32. Spartacus 1919
  33. German song 1937: "Marie don't cry" (Bertolt Brecht)
  34. The purpose of music (Latin saying)
  35. Ballad from the Soldier (Bertolt Brecht)
  36. Sonnet on Goethe's poem: "The God and the Bajadere" (Bertolt Brecht)
  37. Sonnet on Schiller's poem: "The guarantee" (Bertolt Brecht)
  38. To sleep (Ed. Mörike)
  39. Spruch 1939 (Bertolt Brecht)
  40. Four lullabies: "When I carried you in my womb" (Bertolt Brecht)
  41. Four lullabies: "When I gave birth to you" (Bertolt Brecht)
  42. Four lullabies: "I carried you out" (Bertolt Brecht)
  43. Four lullabies: "My son, whatever will become of you" (Bertolt Brecht)
  44. To the little radio
  45. Song of the Soup (Bertolt Brecht)
  46. The torn skirt (Bertolt Brecht)
  47. Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 66
  48. "Slave, who will free you?" (Bertolt Brecht)
  49. Elegy 1939 (Bertolt Brecht)
  50. Funeral oration about a comrade who was placed against the wall (Bertolt Brecht)
  51. About the duration of the exile: “Don't hit a nail in the wall” (Bertolt Brecht)
  52. About the duration of the exile: "See the nail in the wall" (Bertolt Brecht)
  53. Refuge (Bertolt Brecht)
  54. Song of the invigorating effect of money (Bertolt Brecht)
  55. To death ( Matth. Claudius )
  56. The Age (Japanese)
  57. The prison cantata
  58. "In Sturmesnacht" (Bertolt Brecht)
  59. Hammer and sickle (Bertolt Brecht)
  60. "Longing for home was deadly for you too" (Anakreon fragment, translated by Ed. Mörike)
  61. The white bread cantata (based on an Italian farmer's legend)
  62. The German Miserere (Bertolt Brecht)
  63. Song of the Working People ( Steph. Hermlin )
  64. The cherry thief
  65. The tank battle
  66. The human being
  67. The united front song (Bertolt Brecht)
  68. Ballad of the Cotton Pickers ( Br. Traven )
  69. We change the world ( Johannes R. Becher )
  70. When workers and peasants (Johannes R. Becher)
  71. Two elegies: "I came to the cities" (Bertolt Brecht)
  72. Two elegies: "You who will appear" (Bertolt Brecht)
  73. In Praise of Dialectics (Bertolt Brecht)
  74. On the kindness of the world (Bertolt Brecht)
  75. Germany (Johannes R. Becher)

Annotation:

Brecht's song about the soup is: Song from the way out , The torn rock is headed by Bertolt Brecht, Song of the Patch and the Rock .

Volume 3 - Seven parts from the German Symphony and the Lenin Requiem (score) , Against the War (mixed choral setting a cappella)

  1. Prelude (Bertolt Brecht)
  2. To the fighters in the concentration camps (Bertolt Brecht)
  3. Potsdam (Bertolt Brecht)
  4. In Sonnenburg (Bertolt Brecht)
  5. Burial of the agitator in a zinc coffin (Bertolt Brecht)
  6. Peasant Cantata (H. Eisler)
  7. The Song of the Class Enemy (Bertolt Brecht)
  8. Lenin (Bertolt Brecht)
  9. Against the war (Bertolt Brecht)

Pieces one to seven are taken from the work "Deutsche Symphonie".

Volume 4 - 16 songs and ballads (song, piano), the score for The Carpet Weavers by Kujan-Bulak and the incidental music for the Life of Galilei (piano reduction)

  1. The role model (in the words of Goethe )
  2. Legend of the creation of the book Taoteking (Bertolt Brecht)
  3. Stand up! (Bertolt Brecht)
  4. Like the crow (Bertolt Brecht)
  5. Singing in prison (Bertolt Brecht)
  6. Song About Justice ( W. Fischer )
  7. The Song of the Martial Teacher (Bertolt Brecht)
  8. The Roman cantata
  9. Who had their mouths open (Bertolt Brecht)
  10. No (Bertolt Brecht)
  11. Calf March (Bertolt Brecht) 1942
  12. Song of a Great (Bertolt Brecht)
  13. Song of dry bread ( W. Mehring )
  14. Song of the Mariken (Bertolt Brecht)
  15. Peace song (Bertolt Brecht)
  16. The poplar from Karlsplatz (Bertolt Brecht)
  17. The carpet weavers of Kujan-Bulak (Bertolt Brecht)
  18. Galileo (Bertolt Brecht)

Volume 5 - 30 songs, ballads and choirs (vocals, small orchestra), incidental music and songs for Die Gesichte der Simone Machard (score)

  1. Unconcerned about my wisdom ( Hölderlin fragment )
  2. The red wedding ( Erich Weinert )
  3. Left March ( Mayakovsky )
  4. Song of Subbotnik (Mayakovsky)
  5. March of Time (Mayakovsky)
  6. Regiments go (Mayakovsky)
  7. Lice Song ( Peter Hacks )
  8. Song of the Tankists ( Erich Weinert )
  9. So sleep now, you little one (Matthias Claudius)
  10. Stand up, friends ( Klabund )
  11. The moon ( Klabund )
  12. I never thought (Klabund)
  13. The song of the SA man (Bertolt Brecht)
  14. Charity (Kurt Tucholsky)
  15. Song of the Miners ( Anna Gmeiner )
  16. Ballad of the sack throwers ( I. Arendt )
  17. Ballad from the Krüppelgarde ( David Weber )
  18. Salutation to the crane "Karl" (Bertolt Brecht)
  19. Ballad of the tree and the branches (Bertolt Brecht)
  20. The song of January 7th ( Ludwig Renn )
  21. Music for "The Face of Simone Machard" (Bertolt Brecht)
    First scene of the angel
    The second dream
    Third song of the angel
    Song of Simone and March
  22. Four children's songs (Bertolt Brecht)
    Father and mother go on May 1st
    War song
    The mother is in the hospital
    About the child who did not want to wash
  23. Three male choirs (after Heinrich Heine )
  24. Four pieces for mixed choir
    Preamble
    Song of the vanquished
    Contemplation of nature
    Kurfürstendamm
  25. To sing in the streets (David Weber)
  26. The Strikebreaker ( Joe Hill )
  27. Instead of an eulogy (David Weber)
  28. Also on strike: 50,000 woodworkers (from the American)
  29. Litany of the Breath (Bertolt Brecht)
  30. Coals for Mike (Bertolt Brecht)
  31. The Frozen Soldiers (Karl Kraus)

Volume 6 - Woodbury song booklet , incidental music and songs for The Days of the Commune, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich , Katzgraben (1956, text: Erwin Strittmatter) , six other songs and ballads, Palmström

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Volume 7 - incidental music for the play The Mother after Maxim Gorki by Bertolt Brecht

  1. Like the crow
  2. The song about the soup
  3. The torn skirt
  4. Report from May 1st
  5. Praise communism
  6. Praise for learning
  7. Praise a revolutionary
  8. Singing in prison
  9. Praise to the Vlasovas
  10. Praise the third thing
  11. Eulogy
  12. Stand up!
  13. Praise the dialectic

Annotation:

No.2 Song of the soup is in Brecht: Song of the way , no. 3 Torn Skirt has in Bertolt Brecht, the title song of the patch and the rock . In addition, Eisler made various minor text changes in the setting.

Volume 8 - Incidental music for Schweijk in World War II by Bertolt Brecht

  1. First scene In the higher regions
  2. The song of the Nazi soldier's wife
  3. Intermezzo: Schweyk's return from the Gestapo
  4. The song of the little wind
  5. Black radish
  6. Second scene In the higher regions
  7. Heinrich slept with his newlyweds
  8. intermezzo
  9. Beseda polka
  10. Anna's song
  11. Song of the Vltava
  12. Prelude to the third scene In the higher regions
  13. Third scene In the higher regions
  14. By the cannon there
  15. Calf March
  16. Intermezzo
    16a reconciliation
  17. When we moved to Jaromersch
  18. Song of the Cup
  19. German Miserere
  20. Schweyks swan song
  21. Final chant
  • attachment
    Interlude A, B and C.

Volume 9 - songs based on texts by Kurt Tucholsky, vocals and piano as well as a small orchestra

  1. Field crops
  2. In Weißensee
  3. When the hedgehog in the evening hour
  4. purchases
  5. Always out with the mother
  6. Olle camels
  7. The worst enemy
  8. Longing for longing
  9. The song of compromise
  10. The free economy
  11. Return to nature
  12. After the battle
  13. Roses strewn on the path
  14. Revolution review
  15. The steadfast
  16. Summer song
  17. Marburg student song
  18. The weeping Hohenzollern
  19. Nuts hands
  20. Today between yesterday and tomorrow
  21. The quid
  22. Don't you notice anything?
  23. Silence and order
  24. Eight years ago
  25. Open your mouths
  26. Old Vertikow
  27. Happy expectation
  28. Unity and justice and freedom
  29. The tuxedo man
  30. Ideal and reality
  31. Carrot and Stick
  32. Couplet for the beer department
  33. Prayer for the prisoners
  34. German song
  35. Christmas 1918
  36. Social Democratic Party Congress
  37. The ditch
  38. (37a) The Trench (new version)

Volume 10 - Serious chants , images from the "War Primer" and song about peace (score)

Serious chants
foreplay and saying ( Friedrich Hölderlin )

  1. Asylum ( Friedrich Hölderlin )
  2. Sadness (Chanson allemande) ( Berthold Viertel )
  3. Despair ( Giacomo Leopardi )
  4. To Hope ( Friedrich Hölderlin )
  5. XX. Party congress (after Helmut Richter )
  6. Come into the open, friend! ( Friedrich Hölderlin )
  7. Epilogue ( Stephan Hermlin )

Pictures from the War Primer ( Bertolt Brecht )
Introduction: See our sons

  1. The bells are ringing
  2. I am still a city
  3. It was the time
  4. Don't look any more, woman
  5. That's six murderers
  6. You brothers, here in the distant Caucasus
  7. We listened to the school desk
  8. Not cities anymore
  9. Yes, when we came to red Moscow
  10. See these hats of the vanquished
  11. You in the tanks and bombers
  12. These are the cities
  13. I hear the gentlemen in Downing Street
  14. Epilogue: don't forget

Song about peace ( Ernst Fischer )
Prelude and song The sea smiles from the incidental music to Schiller's Wilhelm Tell

Compositions (selection) chronologically

  • 1918 : Song of the departed; The Mousetrap (after Christian Morgenstern ); If only it were so very quiet once (based on Rainer Maria Rilke )
  • 1919 3 songs (Li-Tai-Pe, Klabund); Very quiet walking in the mild wind
  • 1922 Allegro moderato and waltz; Allegretto and Andante for piano
  • 1923 Divertimento ; 4 piano pieces;
  • 1925 8 piano pieces
  • 1926 Hanns Eisler's diary; 11 newspaper clippings, 10 songs; 3 male choirs (based on Heinrich Heine )
  • 1928 So say goodbye to the SPD; Song of the Red Sailors (with Erich Weinert ); Pantomime (with Béla Balázs ); Chum song; Red sailor song; Couplet from time volunteer; Newspaper son; Also a Schumacher (various poets); What do you not want (Des Knaben Wunderhorn); We are the red mouthpiece
  • 1929 op. 16 Tempo of the time f. Choir and kl. Orchestra; 6 songs (based on Weinert, Weber, Jahnke and Vallentin); Song of the Working People (with Stephan Hermlin ),
  • 1930 op. 20 The measure, (Lehrstück, B. Brecht); 6 ballads (after Weber, Brecht, Walter Mehring ); 4 ballads ( B. Traven , Kurt Tucholsky , Wiesner-Gmeyner, Arendt); Suite no.1,
  • 1931 Lied der Roten Flieger (after Kirsanow), 4 songs (after Frank, Weinert) for the film No man's land ; 3 songs as part of the film Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? (Director: Slatan Dudow , screenplay: Brecht); Ballad of the Pirates, Song of the Mariken, 4 ballads (with Bertolt Brecht); Suite No. 2; 3 songs based on Erich Weinert; The song of the fourth man; Strike song; Suite No. 3;
  • 1932 Ballad from Woman and Soldier (with Brecht); Song of the Urals (after Tretyakov); 7 piano pieces; Small symphony
  • 1934 united front song ; Saar song, song against war, songs f. "The round heads and the pointed heads"; Slave, who will free you (with Brecht); Californian ballad, 6 pieces; Prelude and Fugue on BACH ( string trio ); Spartacus 1919
  • 1935 The Mother (with Brecht), Sonata
  • 1935 Lenin Requiem f. Voice, choir and orchestra; German Symphony, with Bertolt Brecht
  • 1937 peace song. Marcha del 5o.mo Regimiento (after Petere); Chamber cantatas; Ulm 1592; Beggar song (with Brecht); Ballad by the Jewish whore Marie Sanders
  • 1938 cantata for Mr. Meyer's first birthday; String quartet;
  • 1939 Nonet No. 1
  • 1940 Chamber Symphony; 14 ways to describe the rain ( Arnold Schönberg on his 70th birthday)
  • 1940/41 Film music for “The Forgotten Village” by Herbert Kline and John Steinbeck
  • 1940/41 Nonet No. 2
  • 1941 Woodburry song book, 20 songs;
  • 1942 Hollywood Elegies (with Bert Brecht)
  • 1943 songs for “Schweyk in the Second World War”; German Miserere (with Brecht)
  • 1946 Happy Journey (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
  • 1948 song about justice (after W. Fischer)
  • 1949 Rhapsody; Song about peace; Hymn of the GDR (text: mug); Treffass;
  • 1950 mid-century (after Becher); 4 songs for The Days of the Commune, children's songs (with Brecht),
  • 1952 Das Lied vom Glück (Brecht); The model (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe),
  • 1955 songs for "Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti"; In the flower garden; The durable gray goose, 3 songs after Brecht; Bel Ami;
  • 1956 4 scenes in the country (text: Erwin Strittmatter ); Children's songs after Brecht; Fidelio (after Beethoven)
  • 1957 pictures from the war primer; The carpet weavers of Kujan-Bulak (with Brecht); Song of the Tankists (Text: Weinert); Regiments go; March of Time ( Mayakovsky ); 3 songs (Majakowski, Peter Hacks ); Sputnik song (Text: Cuba)
  • 1958 May 1st (with Brecht);
  • 1962 Ernste Gesänge, 7 songs (based on Hölderlin , Viertel, Leopardi , Richter, Stephan Hermlin ); Spain

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and the entire holdings of the archive
  2. ^ Hanns Eisler: Songs and Cantatas , publisher: Deutsche Akademie der Künste Berlin, Music Section, VEB Breitkopf and Härtel Musikverlag, Leipzig 1955–1966; This edition is now out of print and only partially (volumes 1–5) are available in antiquarian bookshops.
  3. ^ Archive of the Academy of Arts
  4. ↑ HEGA at Breitkopf & Härtel
  5. ↑ HEGA series structure
  6. ^ Brecht Pieces: Volume V, reviewed edition, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin, 1963
  7. ^ HEW, Volume 7 - incidental music for the play The Mother after Maxim Gorki by Bertolt Brecht
  8. ↑ Brecht Handbook; Edited by Knopf, Jan; Bergheim, Brigitte; Lucchesi, Joachim; Metzler Verlag; Stuttgart 2001-2003; Volume 2; P. 289