Hans Eisler: A Rebel in Music: Selected Writings - Softcover

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Hanns Eisler was born in Leipzig in 1898, the son of the Austrian philosopher Rudolph Eisler, and grew up in Vienna. He received instruction in composition from Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and developed his own style breaking with the restrictions of traditional music genres. Composing for films, he formed a life-long collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. After stays in Paris, London, Moscow, Prague, Eisler lived in New York, where he taught at the New School for Social Research. In Hollywood, Eisler continued his collaboration and in 1948, when he was expelled from the United States under the HUAC investigations, he was honoured at a farewell concert by prominent American colleagues including Bernstein and Copland. Eisler moved back to Germany and settled in East Berlin where he died in East Berlin in1962. Professor David Blake was a founder member of the Department of Music at the University of York and studied composition under Hanns Eisler.