n Hanns Eislers work catalogue, the Nonet is not a rigidly determined chamber-music genre. The three works for nine instruments in the present volume are based on film scores that Eisler wrote in the United States. The Nonet No. 1 is practically identical to the brief film music to The Living Land (1939); the Suite for Nine Instruments and the Nonet No. 2 were derived from the documentary film The Forgotten Village (1941). In the Nonet No. 1, Eisler borrows the twelve-tone technique of his teach...