{"id":510,"date":"2011-10-24T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T05:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=510"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:17:05","slug":"hanns-eisler-composing-for-the-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Hanns Eisler – ‘Composing for the Films’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"White<\/a>
\n‘White Flood’ – clip 1 (1940-2, 1.1 MB, 30 sec.)<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
\n‘A Child Went Forth’ – clip (1940-2, 1.4 MB, 30 sec.)<\/a><\/p>\n

\"White<\/a>
\n‘White Flood’ – clip 2 (1940-2, 661 KB, 29 sec.)<\/a><\/p>\n

Easily the most interesting of all Brecht’s <\/a> composer collaborators
\n& in flat contradiction to the current myth spread by those
\nwho dislike his politics, by far the better composer than the rather
\ndull Weill, Hanns Eisler’s keen intellect turned to questions of film in his
\nexile in the USA in the early forties.
\nUnder the auspices of the New School & funded by the Rockefeller foundation
\nEisler conducted an intensive investigation of the relationship between
\nfilm & music , often involving him writing new music to already existing footage.
\nYou can see some of this footage here – but what you really need to do is to listen.
\nThere is no-one<\/b> who could not learn something from the amazing way Eisler
\ndeploys music here.
\nAfter the project, Eisler went on to write, with Theodore Adorno<\/a>,
\nhimself no slouch intellectually (& also a practicing composer),
\none of the<\/b> key books on music & the movies –‘Composing for the Films’<\/b>
\nThese clips come from the website for a new edition of the book<\/a>
\nreleased with a companion DVD documenting much of the Rockefeller experimentation.
\nIndispensable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘White Flood’ – clip 1 (1940-2, 1.1 MB, 30 sec.) ‘A Child Went Forth’ – clip (1940-2, 1.4 MB, 30 sec.) ‘White Flood’ – clip 2 (1940-2, 661 KB, 29 sec.) Easily the most interesting of all Brecht’s composer collaborators … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,16,17,24,30,14,9,99,37,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-arts","category-cinema","category-community","category-documentary","category-education","category-experimental","category-film","category-hiking","category-historical","category-landscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}