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Hanns Eisler
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Hanns Eisler was born in Leipzig in 1898 and grew up in Vienna, where he studied with Arnold Schönberg. In Berlin he worked with Bertolt Brecht and wrote protest songs for the workers' movement. For the film Kuhle Wampe (1932) he composed the 'Solidaritätslied'. In 1933 he fled from the Nazis. In America, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, he investigated how music and film go together, including with Joris Ivens's short film Regen. With Theodor Adorno he wrote the book Composing for the Films, a fierce critique of Hollywood habits. For Fritz Lang he wrote Hangmen Also Die! (1943). In 1948 he was expelled from the US. For Alain Resnais he composed Nuit et brouillard (1956).
Listening
Solidaritätslied · Ernst Busch, 1932
Nuit et brouillard · Kammersymphonie Berlin & Jürgen Bruns, 1956
Main Title · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Johannes Kalitzke, 1943
Discography
Studio albums
- 1962Gisela May singt Lieder von Hanns Eisler nach Texten von Bertolt Brecht
- 1974Septett Nr. 2 »Zirkus« / Nonett Nr. 1 (Variationen) / Nonett Nr. 2 (Suite)
- 1978Lieder mit Irmgard Arnold
- 1986Musique de Chambre
- 1988Hollywood Song-book: Lieder of the Exile
- 1989Collaboration
- 1989Musique de chambre, Vol. II
- 1995Deutsche Sinfonie: An Anti-Fascist Cantata
- 1995Orchesterwerke / Orchestra Pieces
- 1996Chorlieder - Kinderlieder - Volkslieder
- 1996Historische Aufnahmen
- 1996Lieder und Kantaten im Exil
- 1996Orchesterwerke - Works for Orchestra II
- 1996Vokalsinfonik - Vocal Symphonic Music
- 1996War & Exile
- 1996Works for String Quartet
- 1997Chöre – Choral Music – Chœurs
- 1998Chamber Cantatas & Songs
- 1998Deutsche Symphonie
- 1998Deutsche Symphonie
- 1998Gegen die Dummheit
- 1998Irmgard Arnold singt Eisler
- 1998The Hollywood Songbook
- 2000Die Mutter / Four Pieces, op. 13 / Woodburry-Liederbüchlein / Litanei vom Hauch
- 2004Kleine Sinfonie / Kammer‐Sinfonie / 9 Orchesterstücke / Ouvertüre zu einem Lustspiel
- 2004String Quartets
- 2005Keiner oder alle: Kampfmusik
- 2005Symphony no. 7 (arranged for chamber ensemble)
- 2006BBC Music, Volume 14, Number 7: Brahms: Symphony no. 1 / Eisler: Kleine Sinfonie / Schumann: Faust Overture
- 2006Der Brecht und ich
- 2009Hanns Eisler - Dokumente
- 2013Ernste Gesänge: Lieder with piano
- 2013I Am A Stranger Here Myself
- 2015Bridges: Hollywood Song Book & Transcriptions
- 2017Hangmen Also Die! / The 400 Million / The Grapes Of Wrath / Kleine Sinfonie / Hörfleissübung
- 2017Lieder Vol. 1
- 2017Lieder Vol. 2
- 2018Lieder Vol. 3
- 2019Duos
- 2019Leipzig Symphony / Funeral Pieces / Nuit Et Broulliard
- 2019Lieder Vol. 4
- 2021Deutsche Sinfonie Op. 50
- 2021Marie, weine nicht
- 2022Couplets / Ballads / Orchestral Suites 2–4 / Die letzte Nacht
- 2023Der wilde Sound der 20er: 1929
- 2025Music for Piano
- ?Eisler: Chöre
Other work
- 1932Kuhle Wampe
- 1943Hangmen Also Die!
- 1956Nuit et brouillard
In School of Rock
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- Film Music MapNL Map
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 1NL Reader