EISLER, HANNS

häns īsˈlər, 1898–1962, German composer, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. In 1926, he joined the German Communist party, thereafter producing protest songs and other music expressive of left-wing ideals, and began a collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. He fled Naziism for the United States in 1933, settled in Los Angeles, created scores for a variety of films, and became musical assistant to Charlie Chaplin (1942–47). Called before the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 and castigated as a Communist, he left the United States in 1948, living first in Vienna and then in East Berlin, where he wrote music for 17 films and numerous plays as well as a large number of songs in cabaret style. During his career, he also wrote symphonies, choral compositions, chamber music, and art songs. His music is rigorously crafted, witty, and expressive. Eisler also wrote the book Composing for the Films (1947).

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books on: Eisler Hanns  - 163 results

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The Developmental Social Psychology of Gender
Book by Thomas B. Eckes, Hanns M. Trautner; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000
Subjects: Developmental Psychology, Sex Differences (Psychology), Sex Role, Social Psychology
...to share their positive emotions or disclose personal information than mens Balswick, 1988; Lewis McCarthy, 1988; Saurer Eisler, 1990 . Moreover, when women share their feelings and experiences, they often do so in a way that communicates empathy and...
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New England Museums
Book by Colin Tobias Eisler; Centre National de Recherches Primitifs, 1961
Subjects: Painting, Flemish, Painting--New England
...sold at Auction by Christie, Manson Woods, Ltd., . . . on Friday, November 26, 1948 , London, 1948, p. 6. 1955 3: HANNS SWARZENSKI. An Unknown Bosch, in Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts , LIII No. 291 , Boston, 1955, 1-10. 1955 4...
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The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style
Book by Caryl Flinn; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Motion Picture Music--Germany--History And Criticism, Motion Pictures--Germany
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1992), 53. 16 Teitelbaum, ed., Montage and Modern Life, 8. 17 Hanns Eisler, Hanns Eisler, a Rebel in Music: Selected Writings, ed. Manfred Grabs (New York: International Publishers, 1978...
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Richard Nixon, the Shaping of His Character
Book by Fawn M. Brodie; W. W. Norton, 1981
Subjects: Nixon, Richard M--(Richard Milhous)--1913-, Presidents--United States--Biography
Eisenhower, Milton, 380 Eisenhowers Six Decisions Smith , 445 Eisler, Elfriede, 186 -88 Eisler, Gerhart, 171 , 184 , 186 -89, 506 Eisler, Hanns, 186 -87, 189 , 506 elections and campaigns: 1946 , 170 -84 1948 , 195...
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The Story of Unity Theatre
Book by Colin Chambers; Lawrence & Wishart, 1989
Subjects: Unity Theatre (Group)
...96, 247 Edwards, Stan, 301 Egbuna, Obi, 394, 395 Eisenstein, Sergei, 33, 134, 152 Eisler, Gerhard, 308 Eisler, Hanns, 223, 354 Eisler, Paul, 97 Elliott, Pauline, 169 Elvin, George, 372 Embassy Theatre, 33, 48, 59, 148...
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journal articles on: Eisler Hanns  - 24 results

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Hollywooder Liederbuch (Hollywood Songbook)
Journal article by Judith Carman; Journal of Singing, Vol. 65, 2009
...Hollywood Songbook) by Judith Carman EISLER, HANNS (1898-1962). HOLLYWOODER LIEDERBUCH...Breitkopf Hartel). The music of Hanns Eisler must be understood in the context...straightforward musical investigation. Hanns Eisler was born in Leipzig in 1898 to...
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Between Noise and Language: The Sound Installations and Music of Peter Ablinger
Journal article by G. Douglas Barrett; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: Ablinger, Peter--Criticism and interpretation, Ablinger, Peter--Equipment and supplies, Ablinger, Peter--Works, Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Composers--Equipment and supplies, Composers--Works, Noise (Sound)--Analysis, Noise (Sound)--Portrayals, Noise--Analysis, Noise--Portrayals, Piano--Technology application, Pianos--Technology application
...nonrepresentational aspect," or his and Hanns Eislers description of music as the...from the world of practical things" (Eisler and Adorno 74). And though Adorno...U of Minnesota P, 1987. Eisler, Hanns, and Theodor Adorno. "The Politics...
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Music Received
Journal article by David Knapp; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 67, 2010
Subjects: Musical performances, Piano
...Edition Peters, Nr. 11147. Score, 25 leaves. $65. Eisler, Hanns. Sonatine (Gradus ad Parnassum) fur Klavier, Opus...Manfred Grabs. Im Auftrag der Internationalen Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft neu durchgesehen und kommentiert von Peter...
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Music Received
Journal article by David Knapp; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 67, 2010
Subjects: Chamber music, Opera, Publications, Studies
...68.) A-R, 2009. ISBN 978-0-89579-642-4. xxiv p.; facsims.; score, 170 p.; facsims. $225. Eisler, Hanns. Lieder fur Singstimme und Klavier, 1917-1921. (Songs for Voice and Piano, 1917-1921). Hrsg. von Julia...
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Lieder Aus Dem Nachlass (Posthumous Songs) (Joseph Von Eichendorff) Für Singstimme Und Klavier
Journal article by Judith Carman; Journal of Singing, Vol. 65, 2009
...citizen. Although both Korngold and Hanns Eisler were from Vienna and of the same...their paths diverged radically. Eisler followed the lead of Schoenberg...the Viennese classical tradition. Eisler turned to writing music for the social...
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Inventions: Duets for Violin and Cello by J.s. Bach, Hanns Eisler, Karol Beffa, Béla Bartók, Gideon Klein, Bohuslav Martinu, Fritz Kreisler
Magazine article by Edith Eisler; Strings, Vol. 21, February 2007
Subjects: Musical recordings, String music
...Violin and Cello by J.s. Bach, Hanns Eisler, Karol Beffa, Bela Bartok, Gideon...Violin and Cello by J.S. Bach, Hanns Eisler, Karol Beffa, Bela Bartok, Gideon...different styles and national idioms. Hanns Eisler fled Germany for America only to...
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Kim Kashkashian: Making Choices
Magazine article by Edith Eisler; Strings, Vol. 15, August 2000
Subjects: Kashkashian, Kim, Musicians & conductors, Personal profiles
...Kashkashian: Making Choices by Edith Eisler Wherever you are, in any situation...and the Hochschule ftir Musik Hans Eisler in Germany, and this Fall is taking...was lucky," she explains. "The Hanns Eisler Academy happened to have an opening...
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New York News
Magazine article by Edith Eisler; Strings, Vol. 13, September 1998
Subjects: Classical music, Kuusisto, Pekka, Musicians & conductors, New York City New York, Ngwenyama, Nokuthula, Vengerov, Maxim
New York News by Edith Eisler An unusually large number of European string quartets visited New...Petersen and Vogler Quartets from Germany were both formed at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin. But the Vogler, which also has a successful...
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Potpourri
Magazine article by Edith Eisler; Strings, Vol. 15, July 2000
Subjects: Avalon String Quartet, Classical music, Ingolfsson, Judith, Musical performances, New York City New York, Prieto, Carlos
Potpourri by Edith Eisler New York Concerts The millennial spring season was a heady mix of old...spontaneous. These two quartets flanked Weberns Six Bagatelles and Hanns Eislers String Quartet, a strong, straightforward, wellstructured...
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L'accordéoniste
Magazine article by Wayne Gooding; Opera Canada, Vol. 50, Winter 2009
Subjects: Barber, Kimberly, Musical recordings, Opera, Tiefenbach, Peter, Veterre, Mary-Lou
...program that requires her to switch troni die gritty sueetwise swagger of the Hanns Eisler/Berthold Brecht "Theres Nothing Quite Like Money" (oh. how I wish Eisler was included in such programs as much as Weill) to the more wistful "Chittarra...
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Classical
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 2, 2011
...terrific, especially in two spiky instrumental suites by Hanns Eisler, if rather too loud for the singers. So, except for...of laughs he was) were suicidally bleak; and a third Eisler/Brecht collaboration, The Stimulating Effect of Cash...
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Sage Date for Profs' Quartet
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), January 14, 2011
Subjects: Musicians
...Maria Canals Violin Competition of Barcelona and the German National Music Competition in 1984 and is a professor at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin. Former Vermeer Quartet member, Japaneseborn Nobuko Imai is regarded as one of the most outstanding...
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Out & About
Newspaper article by Frappa Stout; The Washington Times, November 12, 1998
...series, "A Bertolt Brecht Cabaret." Enjoy an evening of the German playwrights poetry and prose, set to the music of Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, Wolfgang Wiemer, Kurt Weill and, of course, Brecht himself. The show will be performed by Brian...
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Classical
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 17, 2007
Subjects: Musicians, Recording industry, Sound recording industry
...10 years. Born in St Petersburg in 1980, he studied at St Petersburg Conservatory, moving to the Berlin Hochschule Hanns Eisler in 1990. Now he studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and has spent time with pianists such as Stephen...
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Warm and Harmonious Selection of Stalwarts
Newspaper article by T.L. Ponick; The Washington Times, September 8, 2001
Subjects: National Symphony Orchestra
...series cabaret-opera evening "Of Love and War," an evocative musical event featuring works of Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler, Friedrich Hollaender, Kurt Weill and Leos Janacek (Nov. 16-24 at the Czech Republic Embassy). The Arlington...
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Eisler, Hanns
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EISLER, HANNS hans is l r, 1898 1962, German composer, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg...art songs. His music is rigorously crafted, witty, and expressive. Eisler also wrote the book Composing for the Films (1947...
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Brecht, Bertolt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...process itself. Songs played an important part for these Brecht wrote the lyrics, with music by Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, and others. Die Dreigroschenoper the threepenny opera (1928), with music by Kurt Weill, is based on John Gays...


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