!!!Eisler, Hanns

b. Leipzig (Germany), July 6, 1898, 
d. erlin (Germany), Sept. 6, 1962, composer; brother of Ruth  Fischer, 
father of Georg  Eisler, son of Viennese philosopher Rudolf Eisler; 
grew up in Vienna and studied under A.  Schoenberg and A. von  Webern. 
Awarded the Music Prize of the City of Vienna for his Piano Sonata Op. 
1. Lived in Berlin from 1925. E. had already devoted himself to the 
labour movement (wrote pieces for worker's choirs) in Vienna, later 
became a radical Marxist. Friendship with B. Brecht, for whom he wrote 
stage and film music, combining elements of classical and light music. 
Spent the years immediately preceding and following World War II as 
well as the war itself (1933-1948) in exile in the Soviet Union, Spain 
and the USA; successful in Hollywood as a writer of film scores and 
music theoretician ( worked with T. W. Adorno). However, he was 
expelled from the USA in 1948 because of his adherence to Communism; 
lived in Vienna until 1950 and then in the German Democratic Republic 
(for which he wrote the national anthem) until his death.

!Further works
String Quartet, 1938; 14 Arten den Regen zu 
beschreiben, Op. 70, 1941. - Incidental music (e.g. to dramas by F. 
Schiller, W. Shakespeare, J. Nestroy, K. Kraus, J. R. Belcher). -

!Publications
Composing for the films, 1947 (with T. W. Adorno; 
Komposition fuer den Film, 1949), Materialien zu einer Didaktik der 
Musik, 1973. - Edition: H. E. Gesamtausgabe (complete works), ed. by 
A. Duemling, 1998ff.

!Literature
J. Shintani (ed.), H. E. 1898-1962, list of works, 1998; 
F. Hennenberg, H. E., 1998; J. Schebera, H. E., 1998.



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