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Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler on Arnold Schoenberg

Hanns Eisler on Arnold Schoenberg

 To the uninitiated listener Schönberg’s music does not sound beautiful because it mirrors the capitalist world...

Hanns Eisler

"A composer knows," Eisler wrote on the eve of his expulsion from the United States, "that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."