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Hanns Eisler
12+ albums
contemporary classicalClassicalgermancomposerTwelve-tone technique
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Hanns Eisler (July 6, 1898 - September 6, 1962) was a German and Austrian composer, a committed socialist, a lifelong collaborator with Bertolt Brecht, and the greatest lieder composer of the 20th century. He was born in Leipzig where his Jewish father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy. In Vienna he studied under Arnold Schoenberg, and was the first of Schoenberg's disciples to compose using the twelve-tone or serial technique. In 1925 Eisler moved to Berlin—then a hothouse of experimentation in music, theater, film, art and politics. There, he identified closely with the Communist Party of Germany although he never joined. His music became increasingly oriented towards political themes and, to Schoenberg's dismay, more "popular" in style with influences drawn from jazz and cabaret. At the same time, he drew closer to Bertolt Brecht, a collaboration that lasted for the rest of Brecht's life. Eisler wrote the music for several Brecht plays, including The Measures Taken (1930), The Mother (1931) and Schweik in the Second World War (1944). Moving to America after the rise of the Nazis, Eisler taught composition at the New School, wrote experimental chamber and documentary music, and composed several Hollywood film scores, two of which—Hangmen Also Die and None but the Lonely Heart—were nominated for Oscars. In 1947 he wrote the book Composing for the Films with Theodor Adorno. Eisler's two most notable works of the 1930s and 40s were the monumental Deutsche Sinfon
top songs
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DER HEIMLICHE AUFMARSCH
8,9202Das Einheitsfrontlied: Das Einheitsfrontlied
5,8683Das Einheitsfrontlied
3,0294Hymne der DDR
1,3555Bécsi munkásinduló (Munka hadának … )
7796Das Lied vom SA-Mann
7727Kinderhymne
5918An den kleinen Radioapparat
4489Das Lied von der Moldau
43710Sklave, Wer Wird Dich Befreien: Sklave, Wer Wird Dich Befreien
407albums
EISLER, H.: Choral Music (Berlin Singakademie, Leipzig Radio Chorus)
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Eisler: Woodburry-Liederbuchlein / 5 Kinderlieder / Septet No. 1 / 9 Deutsche Volkslieder / 9 Kanons
Ernst Busch: 1960 Live in Berin
Eisler: Lieder, Vol. 2
Eisler: Vocal Music
Eisler, H.: Kleine Sinfonie / 5 Orchestral Pieces / Sturm-Suite / Kammersinfonie
Ohne Sentimentalität
Eisler: Lieder, Vol. 1
Hanns Eisler Edition
Hanns Eisler: Ernste Gesänge - Lieder with piano
Eisler, H., Brecht, B.: There's Nothing Quite Like Money
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Hanns Eisler: Kinderhymne