Music and Beyond
Hans Keller, 21 October 1982
Hanns Eisler: Political Musician
by Albrecht Betz, translated by Bill Hopkins.
Cambridge, 326 pp., £25, June 1982,0 521 24022 0 Show More
by Albrecht Betz, translated by Bill Hopkins.
Cambridge, 326 pp., £25, June 1982,
Music and Political: Collected Writings 1953-81
by Hans Werner Henze, translated by Peter Labanyi.
Faber, 286 pp., £15, July 1982,0 571 11719 8 Show More
by Hans Werner Henze, translated by Peter Labanyi.
Faber, 286 pp., £15, July 1982,
Vindications: Essays on Romantic Music
by Deryck Cooke and Bryan Magee.
Faber, 226 pp., £12.50, July 1982,0 571 11795 3 Show More
by Deryck Cooke and Bryan Magee.
Faber, 226 pp., £12.50, July 1982,
“... their delusions, which, as such, constitute, for the wily, part of the information. Betz’s is a biography plus: not only the man but also the composer is described in conscientious and competent detail. On the way, and almost inevitably, Eisler is being overestimated as ‘one of the great composers of the present century’, who had, in the ... ”
