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Eisler and Austrian Music: Notes for the Almeida Festival
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
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In West Berlin on 8 September 1987, Fischer-Dieskau is to give a recital of Hanns Eisler's songs, with Aribert Reimann at the piano. A tribute at this level to Eisler's achievement within and around the Lieder tradition was long overdue. Since the concert is sponsored by the Berliner Festwochen—which this year is handsomely celebrating the city's 750th anniversary—it is assured international attention, which it deserves for a variety of reasons, not least because it is impossible to construct a complete and balanced programme of Eisler Lieder without somehow calling in question the very idea of official blessings, from whatever quarter.
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* Just such a programme was planned for the Almeida Festival, but for practical reason could not be realised.
† See, for instance, Robin Holloway's review of books on Stravinsky, Strauss, and Schoenberg in TEMPO No. 120 (March 1977), pp. 41–44.
‡ For von Einem's recollections of Brecht and the Salzburg episode, see TEMPO No. 104 (1973), pages 20–21.