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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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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Charms That Soothe: Classical Music and the Narrative Film
Book by Dean Duncan; Fordham University Press, 2003
Subjects: Motion Picture Music--History And Criticism, Motion Pictures And Music
...short of perfection.19 By the time Hanns Eislers seminal Composing for the Films...contrapuntal practice advocated by Hanns Eisler. See chapter three. 58. In Gorbman...Wagnerian vigor and validity. Hanns Eisler and Theodor Adorno asserted that...
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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
...advocates the concept of Musik-Shock, invoking the discourse of shock so pivotal to European modernists before 1933, like Eisler, Brecht, Weill, and Eisenstein. In spite of his acknowledged debt to these predecessors, however, Rabens work, and his notion...
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journal articles on: Eisler Hanns  - 13 results

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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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T.w. Adorno: Cinema in Spite of Itself-but Cinema All the Same
Journal article by Nicole Brenez; Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Art, Motion pictures, Theaters & cinemas
...in Santa Monica, he wrote, with Hanns Eisler, a book on cinema music that draws...along with Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler, he was looking for ideas/materials...in his work on cinema music with Eisler, that is, essentially as a mode...
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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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Joy H. Calico. Brecht at the Opera
Journal article by Michael Ewans; Comparative Drama, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Brecht at the Opera (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...necessitated by his collaborations with Hanns Eisler on The Mother and Round Heads and Pointed Heads. Eisler used the Gestus as a musical device to avoid...that it starts from the actual practice of Eisler and Brecht, and only considers previous...
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Eva Meier at the Purcell Room
Magazine article by David Alker; Musical Opinion, Vol. 126, March 2003
...deserved, older members of the audience recollecting their original context and attendant reminiscence. Paul Dessau, Hanns Eisler, Friedrich Hollande, Mischa Spoliansky, Franz Waxman and Kurt Weill, of course, provided the music that sustained the...
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New Works for Minneapolitans
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 25, November 2008
Subjects: Arts centers--Services, Theater--Conferences, meetings and seminars
...Pick-Up Performance Company restages Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eislers rarely performed music-theatre work, Roundheads and...new translation as Uncivil Wars: Moving with Brecht Eisler. Performance artist John Kelly, actor Estelle Parsons...
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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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Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Bonn Beethovenfest
Magazine article by Christopher Morley; Musical Opinion, Vol. 132, November 2008
...by a composer scarcely known here in Great Britain: Hanns Eislers Deutsche Sinfonie. This is a 65minute, 11-movement work...politics in one way or another, whether as messengers (Eisler, Weill, HK Gruber, among many others) or as victims...
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Schoenberg's Alpine Wanderer: Erich Schmid at 100
Magazine article by Chris Walton; Musical Times, Vol. 147, Winter 2006
Subjects: Composition, Music, Musical recordings, Musicians & conductors, Opera
...the works ot Ferruccio Busoni and Max Reger. But his programmes in fact encompassed everything from Samuel Scheldt to Hanns Eisler, and even waltz composers such as Joseph Lanner. Schmid was also increasingly active on the international scene in these...
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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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Obituary
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 4, 2009
...naturally to those German and Austrian composers whose work had been so influenced one way or another by the Nazis, men like Hanns Eisler, Kurt Schwertsik and HK Gruber. He had joined Boosey and Hawkes in 1976, and gently encouraged those composers he felt...
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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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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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encyclopedia articles on: Eisler Hanns  - 2 results

 
 
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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...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, 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 Beggars...


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