Zeisl Erich (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Sheet music. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Folio. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 117 Pp. Softcover, Large Format. Inscribed Jan. 3 1954 By Zeisl To His Friend Hugo (Apparently A Close Friend Of The Schoenfeld Sisters, Violinists). Erich Zeisl (1905 - 1959) (Often Spelled Eric) Was An Austrian-Born American Composer. Born To A Middle Class Jewish Family In Vienna, Zeisl Was The Son Of Kamilla (Feitler) And Siegmund Zeisl. His Musical Precocity Enabled Him To Gain A Place At The Vienna State Academy (Against The Wishes Of His Family) When He Was 14, At Which Age His First Song Was Published. While There, He Studied With Richard Stöhr, Joseph Marx And Hugo Kauder. He Won A State Prize For A Setting Of The Requiem Mass In 1934, But His Jewish Background Made It Difficult To Obtain Work And Publication. After The Anschluss In 1938 He Fled, First To Paris, Where He Began Work On An Opera Based On Joseph Roth's Job, And Then To New York City. Eventually He Went To Hollywood Where He Worked On Film Music But Increasingly Felt Isolated And Ill At Ease With The Production-Line Demands Of His Employers. Among The Films For Which He Wrote Music Were The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), And Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible Man (1951). Zeisl's Style Was Essentially Tonal, And Conservative Compared To Contemporaries Such As Arnold Schoenberg, And Thus Not Totally Unsuited To Film Music Composition. But His Heart Lay Elsewhere. At One Stage He Was Employed To Arrange The Music For A Highly Inaccurate Stage Show About The Life Of Tchaikovsky, Song Without Words. His Anguish About His Reduction To Such Work (Together With The Straits To Which Other Émigré Composers In America Were Reduced At The Time) Is Evident In A Letter Written To A Friend In 1945: 'Even Milhaud, Stravinsky, Tansman Are Struggling. Béla Bartók Died In New York Of Hunger! [.] Last Year I Orchestrated A Tchaikowsky Operetta Which Provided [A] Living For 8 Months, But Why Does Tchaikowsky Have To Be Put Into An Operetta? [.] No Composer Is Important Here'. Nonetheless Zeisl Was Able Eventually To Find Academic Appointments And Time To Compose In His Own Style. These Works Included A Variety Of Chamber Music, A Piano Concerto, A Concerto For Cello (Written For Gregor Piatigorsky), And A Setting For Choir, Soloists, And Orchestra Of Psalm 92 In Hebrew, Which He Titled Requiem Ebraico (Hebrew Requiem), Written In 1944-5 In Memory Of His Father. A Work Of Variations For Orchestra Was Based On The Christmas Carol "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear." His Opera Hiob (Job) Was Never Completed. Zeisl Was Married To Gertrud Susanne (Jellinek). His Daughter Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg Married Ronald Schoenberg, The Son Of The Composer Arnold Schoenberg. His Grandson Is Lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg. Zeisl's Status As A Proscribed Musician Under The Nazi Regime Has Been One Element In A Revival Of Interest In His Music, Some Of Which Is Now Available On Cd. The Premiere Performance Of The Requiem Ebraico Was Held In Los Angeles In The Hollywood First Methodist Church On April 8, 1945 By Hugo Strelitzer Conducting The Fairfax Temple Choir. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: New.

audioCD. Condition: Gut. Versand im Luftpolsterumschlag! CD-Hülle etwas berieben, CD ist in einem guten Zustand; Case shows some wear, CD in good condition H230117cdq72 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 120.

Manuscript Facsimile. Dedication facsimile manuscript of this violin aria from the opera Job, presented by Eric Zeisl likely to patrons of the arts in Hollywood. Zeisl (1905-1959) was a bright young talent in the Vienna scene before fleeing to Paris and then America in 1939. In the 1940's, he moved to Hollywood to compose film music, which proved to be a short-lived endeavor due to his late arrival on the scene. He continued with serious composition, teaching at Los Angeles City College until his death in 1959. His most important work,Requiem Ebraico,was composed in 1944-45 as a Holocaust commemoration, becoming the first major piece of its kind. Only two of four acts of the operaJob (ca 1939.)were completed, the libretto by Hans Kafka after the novel by Joseph Roth. This expressive aria for violin and piano is both tonal and modern with natural influences from Strauss, Mahler, (early) Schoenberg, and others heard. Oberlin College and the National Library of Israel are indicated by OCLC as holding copies of this unpublished manuscript. . Folio, 36x23cm, 3pp + [1] inserted violin part. Large sheet, folded in three, plus single sheet, both printed recto only. Inscribed by Zeisl in Hollywood, December 7, 1946. Very good with some edge tearing and toning to paper.

Orig.-Broschur. Condition: Gut. 31 x 23 cm. 1 Bl., 117 Seiten. *Erstausgabe. Exemplar aus dem Besitz des Komponisten und mit dessen Besitzstempel ("Eric Zeisl, 1348 Miller Drive, Hollywood 46, Calif."). - Im Bund etwas schadhaft. Innen sauber und gut erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1001.