Likes: Composed by Erwin Schulhoff, who was both jewish and communist and died in the concentration camp of Wülzburg, the history behind this composition is quite interesting.
The Communist Manifesto, by Erwin Schulhoff
Composed by Erwin Schulhoff, who was both jewish and communist and died in the concentration camp of Wülzburg, the history behind this composition is quite interesting.
Someday, something will come out of anything.
Can I get a recording of this? I'd love one if it's possible.
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Well, I assume that there might be a few out there.
This is a relatively unknown composer, though, because he died rather young and he didn't really reach his compositional climax. Quite a shame.
Someday, something will come out of anything.
Schulhoff is fairly famous, I'd say. Most people on talkclassical will have heard music by him. But not this particular work!
BIS or Hyperion or some company like that needs to get on this.
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Well, well! I never realised that this was available. As Science says, it would be nice to see this curio recorded again. I'm wondering if the recording here was made by Supraphon or another Czech label during the vinyl era but has never seen the light on CD?
'...a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without a single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...' - Leigh Hunt on the Prince Regent (later George IV).
ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [Those whom the gods love die young] - Menander
Schulhoff has become fairly well known as Science notes. There were recording series dedicated to composers that the Nazis labeled degenerate, and Schulhoff, Gidon Klein, Viktor Ullman, Pavel Haas have been the principal beneficiaries of this attention.
Schuloff's music contains a lot of jazzy elements, and I have heard part of another piece, a Cantata, that was essentially Communist agitprop.
All of the Composers that I mention above wrote interesting Music and while their bios are compelling and sad, thier Art stands on it's own, interesting for it's own sake. Having said that, I am not sure that The Communist Manifesto is something that I would want to hear set to music.
Lotte Lenya recalled that that was how Kurt Weill felt about Berthold Brecht towards the end of their collaborative era.Originally Posted by Triplets
'...a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without a single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...' - Leigh Hunt on the Prince Regent (later George IV).
ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [Those whom the gods love die young] - Menander
My reading suggests that Berlin was an, ah, unusual environment in the decade before the National Socialists put the clamps on it.
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Interesting, without doubt - a very fertile time for the arts but also time when a barrowload of 'papiermarks' didn't buy you much (well, for the first half of the decade at least...)
'...a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without a single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...' - Leigh Hunt on the Prince Regent (later George IV).
ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [Those whom the gods love die young] - Menander
Right you are. An attractive-in-many-ways decadence, that started to erode in 1926/7 with the rat Goebbels' propoganda and thuggery.
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Have you seen the movie Cabaret?
Interestingly the Nazis were weakest Politically in Berlin before the war. Munich was their original base but in Berlin they tended to poll behind the Social Democrats, and about equal with the Communists. Hitler had appointed his most effective Propagandist, Goebbels, as his Gauleiter (Party Leader) for Berlin in in an attempt to improve their fortunes. They viewed the decadent capital as somewhat of a Sodom.
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Goebbels had PhD in German Literature and organized the book burnings! What a terrible contradiction for a Mensch (human being)! I'm always scared even more of a wise but dangerous man who is quite aware of what sort of catastrophe he/she is doing to the world rather than a foolish one who just blindly obey what has injected in their mind by the others.
In a world which is ruled by gangsters and maniacs, art means nothing but just a junk food and there's no hope for human's salvation throughout... (Shāmlou)
Recording avaiable on lp
There is a recording available on LP number 1.12.2100. It was recorded in 1976 and issued the following year. As far as I am aware there is no CD and given the shift in political allegiance over the last 40 years |I suspect it may get 'lost' in the archives of Supraphon, which is a pity as it's an impressive work
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They go hand-in-hand, don't they? The only reason the former can ever make their mark on the world is that they have legions of thousands and thousands of the latter following them.
Setting the communist manifesto to music, that's a good one. Can't wait for the Dictionary being set to music.
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