Brecht, Music and Culture

The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht''s closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period of four years, from 1958 until his death in 1962, Eisler offers a compelling and absorbing account of his and Brecht''s period of exile in Europe and the USA between 1933 and 1947, and of the quality of artistic, ...