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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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
...THOMAS ECKES University of Dresden HANNS M. TRAUTNER University of Wuppertal...psychology of gender / edited by Thomas Eckes, Hanns M. Trautner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...psychology. I. Eckes, Thomas. II. Trautner, Hanns Martin, 1943- HQ1075.D47 2000 305.3...
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New England Museums
Book by Colin Tobias Eisler; Centre National de Recherches Primitifs, 1961
Subjects: Painting, Flemish, Painting--New England
...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...
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The Theatre of the Weimar Republic
Book by John Willett; Holmes & Meier, 1988
Subjects: Theater--Germany--History--20th Century
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Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924
Book by Martin Miller Marks; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Silent Film Music--History And Criticism
...early forties, Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler both scored films produced by United...Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, Eisler, Louis Gruenberg, Roy Harris...other hand, Antheil, Copland, and Eisler tended to see film music in much...
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Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music
Book by Ann M. Pescatello; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992
Subjects: Musicians--United States--Biography, Seeger, Charles--1886-1979
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Music as Social Circumstance
Journal article by Judith R. Blau; Social Forces, Vol. 66, 1988
Subjects: Social Service--Periodicals
...postmodern capitalism may be, as Hanns Eisler ( 1958 ) described it, "The whine...1951 . Suicide . Free Press. Eisler, Hanns. n.d. 1958 . " Uber die Dummheit...Translated by Marjorie Meyer in Hanns Eisler (1978), edited by Manfred Grabs...
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Institutions, Industries, Technologies: Arnold Schoenberg and the Cinematic Art
Journal article by Sabine M. Feisst; Musical Quarterly, Vol. 83, 1999
Subjects: Music
...again with his earlier student Hanns Eisler, who was deeply engaged in the...introduced Schoenberg to him: "Hanns Eisler brought Schonberg to my studio...California Los Angeles. 52. Hanns Eisler, Composing for the Films (New...
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The Present is a Foreign Country: Germany After Unification
Journal article by Mary Beth Stein; Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 30, 1993
Subjects: Folklore
...Johannes R. Becher, with music by Hanns Eisler, the national song of the first...of the Deutschlandlied while Eisler was in Soviet exile ( Dittmar...first version that Becher gave to Eisler, the wording was Deutschland, unser...
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Dorothy Parker and the Politics of McCarthyism
Journal article by Milly S. Barranger; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 26, 2006
Subjects: American writers--History, American writers--Political activity, American writers--Works, Authors, American--History, Authors, American--Political activity, Authors, American--Works, McCarthyism--History, Parker, Dorothy--History, Parker, Dorothy--Political activity, Parker, Dorothy--Works
...and fundraisers. In 1947 she addressed a rally to raise money for the defense of composer Hanns Eisler (brother of Communist Party leader Gerhart Eisler). In her speech she condemned the "shameful persecution" of the German antifascist refugee...
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Fashioning the Socialist Nation: The Gender of Consumption in Slatan Dudow's Destinies of Women
Journal article by Elizabeth Mittman; German Politics and Society, Vol. 23, 2005
Subjects: Dudow, Slatan--Criticism and interpretation, Dudow, Slatan--Works, Filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Works, Frauenschicksale (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Gender equality--Portrayals, Movie directors--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Works
...a poem by Brecht which was commissioned for the film. Hanns Eisler, who wrote the score for Kuhle Wampe as well, set the...backdrop of the earlier collaborations of Dudow, Brecht, and Eisler, see Vera Stegrnann, "Frauenschicksale and Brechts Opera...
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Bentley on Brecht
Magazine article by Sally Peters; American Theatre, Vol. 16, March 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...that he was consorting with Communists: "Eisler, a Communist?" he retorted on hearing the label applied to composer Hanns Eisler: "Nonsense: His music is just like Mozart!" At other points, the focus turns more subjective, detailing Bentleys stormy...
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Who Was That Masked Composer? in Political Life as in His Music, Aaron Copland Decorously Hid His Emotions
Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000
Subjects: Classical music, Composers, Copland, Aaron, Jazz musicians, Music
...was of two minds about the political role of music. Some composers, among them Marc Blitzstein, followed the model of Hanns Eisler, who wrote simple but acridly harmonized songs to support the cause. Others, such as Charles Seeger (the musicologist...
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The Wall and the U.S.S.R. Are Gone; What Happens to Brecht's Long-Disputed Reputation Now?
Magazine article by Eric Bentley; American Theatre, Vol. 15, May-June 1998
Subjects: Brecht, Bertolt--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dramatists--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Germany is the belief that Ulbricht and Honecker and their men had let Communism down, and so Brecht and his Brechtians (Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, et al.) had only been let down, not discredited. This way Brecht is returned to his unique status as the...
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Hungarian Rhapsodies
Magazine article by Tom Sellar; American Theatre, Vol. 18, July 2001
Subjects: Brecht, Bertolt--Works, Szasz, Janos--Management, Theater--Production and direction, Theatrical producers and directors--Management
...contrast, generally cuts or minimizes those lighter moments (with the exception of the wonderful songs by Paul Dessau and Hanns Eisler) to underline the unmitigated inhumanity of war. Its a curious paradox. When Brecht directed that epochal production...
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Who Was That Masked Composer? : In Political Life as Well as in His Music, Aaron Copland Decorously Hid His Emotions
Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000
Subjects: Composers--Biography, Copland, Aaron--Biography
...was of two minds about the political role of music. Some composers, among them Marc Blitzstein, followed the model of Hanns Eisler, who wrote simple but acridly harmonized songs to support the cause. Others, such as Charles Seeger (the musicologist...
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newspaper articles on: Eisler Hanns  - 5 results

 
 
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Classical
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 17, 2007
Subjects: Musicians, Recording industry, Sound recording industry
...last 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 Hough...
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Artistry, Style and Youthful Passion
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 26, 2007
...Its hard to believe that such a non-standard piece as Hanns Eislerss Kleine Sinfonie was already in his repertoire; in which...the rehearsal must have been a sharp learning curve. Eisler broke away from the Schoenberg circle and its preoccupations...
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Everyone Gets to Sit in Best Seat in the House; CLASSICAL Christopher Morley Puts His Feet Up in the Best Concert Venue That Germany Can Offer
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 11, 2008
...by a composer scarcely known here in Great Britain: Hanns Eislers Deutsche Sinfonie. This is a 65-minute, 11-movement...politics in one way or another, whether as messengers (Eisler, Weill, HK Gruber, among many others) or as victims...
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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 Hemmingsen...
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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
...be the 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 Symphony...


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encyclopedia articles on: Eisler Hanns  - 2 results

 
 
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Eisler, Hanns
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
EISLER, HANNS hans is l r, 1898 1962, German composer, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg...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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Brecht, Bertolt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...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 Beggars...


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