{"title":"Hanns Eisler and Faust in the German Democratic Republic","authors":"Joy H. Calico","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935185.013.7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"When Austrian composer and committed Marxist Hanns Eisler was forced out of the United States in 1948, he returned to Vienna and hoped to settle there. Instead, a commission for Goethe’s bicentennial celebration the following year drew him to East Berlin and the SBZ (Soviet Occupation Zone), soon to be the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany), and set him on the path to be that country’s most prominent composer. This chapter examines the piece Eisler wrote for that commission, Rhapsodie für großes Orchester (Rhapsody for large orchestra) (1949), which set text from Goethe’s Faust II, as well as his libretto for a proposed opera entitled Johann Faustus. East German reception of these pieces reveals the centrality of Goethe’s Faust for national identity formation in the fledgling GDR.","PeriodicalId":383294,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935185.013.7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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When Austrian composer and committed Marxist Hanns Eisler was forced out of the United States in 1948, he returned to Vienna and hoped to settle there. Instead, a commission for Goethe’s bicentennial celebration the following year drew him to East Berlin and the SBZ (Soviet Occupation Zone), soon to be the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany), and set him on the path to be that country’s most prominent composer. This chapter examines the piece Eisler wrote for that commission, Rhapsodie für großes Orchester (Rhapsody for large orchestra) (1949), which set text from Goethe’s Faust II, as well as his libretto for a proposed opera entitled Johann Faustus. East German reception of these pieces reveals the centrality of Goethe’s Faust for national identity formation in the fledgling GDR.
1948年，奥地利作曲家、坚定的马克思主义者汉斯·艾斯勒(hans Eisler)被迫离开美国，他回到维也纳，希望在那里定居。相反，第二年歌德200周年庆典的委托将他吸引到东柏林和SBZ(苏联占领区)，很快成为德意志民主共和国(GDR，或东德)，并使他走上了成为该国最杰出的作曲家的道路。本章将考察艾斯勒为该委员会所写的作品《狂想曲》(Rhapsodie f r großes Orchester)(1949年)，该作品采用了歌德的《浮士德II》的文本，以及他为一部名为《约翰·浮士德》的拟议歌剧所写的歌词。东德对这些作品的接受揭示了歌德的《浮士德》在新生的德意志民主共和国形成民族认同的中心地位。
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