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  Hanns Eisler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hanns Eisler (July 6, 1898 - September 6, 1962) was a German and Austrian composer.
Eisler was born in Leipzig where his father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy.
Eisler's supporters—including his friend Charlie Chaplin and the composers Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein—organized benefit concerts to raise money for his defense fund, but he was deported early in 1948.
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 Hanns Eisler: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eisler was the first of Schoenberg's disciples to compose in the twelve-tone Twelve-tone technique quick summary:
Eisler's two most notable works of the 1930s and 40s were the monumental Deutsche Sinfonie (1935-57)—a choral symphony in eleven movements based on poems by Brecht and Ignazio Silone—and a cycle of art songs published as the Hollywood Songbook (1938-43).
Eisler never recovered completely from Brecht's death in 1956 and his remaining years were marred by depression and declining health.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hanns_eisler.htm   (2216 words)

  
 Hanns Eisler | Extension of Statements and Refutations ('Un-American Activities')
Typescript by Hanns Eisler, expanding on the Statements of 9 May and 10 May 1947.
Why is it necessary to convince the American public that the Eisler brothers are suspicious characters, the red-witch hunt is on and hares are needed for the hounds.
Eisler is referring here to questions asked at immigration when entering the USA from Mexico in September 1940.
www.mediamusicstudies.net /tagg/others/eisler/refute.html   (3442 words)

  
 Hanns Eisler
Hanns Eisler was born in Leipzig as the son of Rudolf Eisler (1873-1926), a Neo-Kantian historian of philosophy, and Ida Marie (Fischer) Eisler (1875-1929), a butcher's daughter.
Thanks to his sister's political denunciation of her brothers, Eisler was among the first Hollywood personalities to be called to testify in the 1947 hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Eisler argued that although he had applied for membership to the KPD in Berlin, he never became a true member.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /eisler.htm   (2025 words)

  
 Hanns Eisler: Life: Eisler's HUAC Testimony I
Eisler's first interrogation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities took place in Los Angeles on May 12, 1947.
According to the FBI file in Washington, Eisler was allowed to read the following prepared testimony.
I think the campaign against him is the beginning of a campaign against the liberal and progressive forces in this country.
www.eislermusic.com /huac1.htm   (1054 words)

  
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Hanns Eisler: Life: Eisler in the McCarthy Era
Hanns and Lou Eisler take a last look at America as they board a plane for Like Hanns, Gerhart Eisler and his wife, Hilda, had found a safe refuge in
The Hanns Time.Square LCD is half sports watch and half LCD television.
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