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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.
The School of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin was founded in 1950 and is one of the leading music academies in Europe.
Hanns Eisler was born in Leipzig on 6 July 1898 and went to school in Vienna. After two years as a common soldier in the first world war, he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in 1919, dedicating his Sonata for Piano op. 1 to his teacher in 1923.
Hanns Eisler. German composer born 6 July 1898 in Leipzig; died 6 September 1962 in East Berlin.
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.
In 1937 Hanns Eisler was fervently productive, composing works across the gamut of his musical interests: workers' songs for the popular resistance in Spain, settings of Brecht texts, nine chamber cantatas, the Lenin-Requiem, and two movements of the
Marxist composer Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) was in Vienna in January 1933 when Hitler became German Chancellor. Eisler stayed true to his Communist ideals, fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s and America in the 1940s.
Jun 27, 2018 · EISLER, HANNS (1898–1962), German composer; son of Rudolf *Eisler. Eisler, born in Leipzig, was a pupil of Arnold *Schoenberg and Anton von Webern in Vienna. His early compositions were in an advanced idiom, but Eisler soon adapted to the demands of " socialist realism ."
The International Hanns Eisler Society (IHEG) was founded in Berlin on 21 May 1994. It is dedicated to the research and dissemination of the works of Hanns Eisler.
Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898, Leipzig, Ger. – 6 September 1962, East Berlin, Ger.) was a German-Austrian composer. During the World War I, Eisler served as a front-line soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army and was wounded several times in combat.
