Mont Blanc, The White Ecstasy and S.O.S. Eisberg by Arnold Fanck White Cargo (by Robert Siodmak), Yoshiwara (by Max Ophüls), The Novel of Werther (by Ophüls) Crossroads (1938) Gibraltar (1938) The White Slave (1939) Works for choir Deutsches Miserere for mixed choir, children's choir, soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, large orchestra, organ and trautonium 1943–1944 Internationale Kriegsfibel for soloists, mixed choir and instruments 1944–45 Die Erziehung der Hirse, musical epic for one narrator, one solo voice, mixed choir, youth choir and large orchestra 1952–1954 Vier Grabschriften. Grabschrift für Gorki for one or several male voices and brass (1947) Grabschrift für Rosa Luxemburg for mixed choir and orchestra Grabschrift für Liebknecht Grabschrift für Lenin 5 Songs for three female voices a cappella: "Die Thälmannkolonne" "Mein Bruder war ein Flieger" "Vom Kind, das sich nicht waschen wollte" "Sieben Rosen hat der Strauch" "Lied von der Bleibe" " Appell der Arbeiterklasse" for alto and tenor solo, narrator, children's and mixed choir and large orchestra, 1960–1961 Songs "Kampflied der schwarzen Strohhüte" 1936 "Freiheit" (also known as "Thälmann-Kolonne") 1936 "Lied einer deutschen Mutter" 1943 "Das deutsche Miserere" 1943 "Horst-Dussel-Lied" 1943 "Wiegenlied für Gesang und Gitarre" 1947 "Aufbaulied der FDJ" 1948 "Zukunftslied" 1949 "Friedenslied" for one solo voice with one accompanying voice (text: Bertolt Brecht after Pablo Neruda) 1951 "Der Augsburger Kreidekreis" A dramatic ballad for music 1952 "Jakobs Söhne ziehen aus, im Ägyptenland Lebensmittel zu holen" for children's choir, soloists and instruments 1953 "Der anachronistische Zug" ballad for song, piano and percussion 1956 "Kleines Lied" for song and piano 1965 "Historie vom verliebten Schwein Malchus" for solo voice 1973 "Spruch für Gesang und Klavier" 1973 "Bei den Hochgestellten" 1975 Other compositions In memoriam Bertolt Brecht for large orchestra 1956–1957 Bach-Variationen for large orchestra 1963 Symphonic Mozart-Adaptation (after the Quintet, K.614) 1965 Lenin, music for orchestra no. 3 with concluding chorus "Grabschrift für Lenin" 1969 Für Helli, small piece for piano 1971 Bagatelles for viola and piano (1975) Sonatine for viola and piano (1929) 2 symphonies 7 string quartets and others Awards Award of the music publisher Schott 1924 National Prize III. Category 1953 National Prize II. Category 1956 National Prize I. Category 1965 Vaterländischer Verdienstorden (Decoration of Honour for Services to the GDR) in Gold 1965 Karl-Marx-Orden (Karl-Marx–Decoration) 1969 National Prize I. Category 1974 Sources Dessau, Paul. Notizen zu Noten, ed. Fritz Henneberg (Reclam, Leipzig 1974). Dessau, Paul. Aus Gesprächen (VEB Deutscher Verlag für