Schweyk in World War II
Music to the Stage Play of the Same Name
by Hanns Eisler
Voice Solo - Sheet Music

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

SKU: BR.DV-9090

Music to the Stage Play of the Same Name. Composed by Hanns Eisler. Voice; Softcover. Deutscher Verlag. Stage/film Music; Music theatre; Early modern; Music post-1945. Score. 44 pages. Deutscher Verlag fur Musik #DV 9090. Published by Deutscher Verlag fur Musik (BR.DV-9090).

ISBN 9790200490992. 9 x 12 inches. German.

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)

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.

(Jurgen Schebera)

(Jurgen Schebera 1998) (Jurgen Schebera 1998)
(Jurgen Schebera)
(Jurgen Schebera 1998)

(Jurgen Schebera).