When an uncompromising musician composes for Hollywood

When an uncompromising musician composes for Hollywood

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norman lebrecht

March 10, 2017

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

In the Hollywood walk of composing fame, Hanns Eisler is the forgotten man. Erich Korngold was the founding father, Waxman and Newman the busy bees, Rosza and Herrmann the atmosphere merchants. Eisler, who wrote the first book on composing for film and treated the craft as an art in its own right, is all but pushed off the sidewalk…

 

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