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Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany , for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht , and for the scores he wrote for films.
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Jun 27, 2018 · Hanns Eisler was a German composer and film music pioneer who collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and other left-wing artists. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and taught in the US and East Berlin, where he was deported in 1948.
Hanns Eisler (July 6, 1898 - September 6, 1962) was born in Germany, but his (Jewish) family moved to Vienna when Eisler was 3 years old, so by upbringing and training he was Austrian. In 1919, after a stint in the Austrian army during WW1, he started a four year period of study under Arnold Schoenberg, who thought very highly of him.
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Oct 25, 2018 · The composer Hanns Eisler was once called “the Karl Marx of Communism in the musical field” by House of Un-American Activities chief investigator Robert Stripling. That description might be an ...
Oct 20, 2018 · Learn about the life and work of Hanns Eisler, a towering figure of modern music and a lifelong communist. From his early songs for workers' choirs to his film scores and the GDR anthem, Eisler fought fascism with his art and his politics.
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) Marxist composer Hanns Eisler spent his life practising his politics through music. Despite the dangerous political implications of doing so, Eisler stayed true to his Communist ideals, fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s and America in the 1940s. Musicologist David Blake writes that ‘no composer has suffered more from ...
Jul 11, 2003 · THE German composer Hanns Eisler wrote music of terse expressiveness, sharp wit and often immaculate craftsmanship. If, more than 50 years after his death, his work is little remembered today, it ...
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