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ae i ta CG HANS Fisei 6 gy wees ee mote Hans-Bisie: The noted German composer who was exiled from his own country by the : fascist recently arrived in Moscow. * cul "te? For us Eisler is, first of all, a song. Jt is "the Red Wedding", it is "the Comintern". To the tune of Bisler's songs the proletariate abroad fought in the barricades of Berlin and Vienna. With Eisler'a songs they started their demonstrations in Zurich and Antwerp. Singing Eisler's songs they stood in etrickers' picket lines on the streets of Copenhagen and Manchester. At the age of seventeen, when Eisler was a quiet~mannered student, he was sent to the front. His canpanions, Hungarian peasants, made fun of young mister-finikin who pulled on his gloves before eating because he did not want to eat with dirty hands after riding in a freight car for several days. But these same soldiers esteemed the young man who could write tunes down on paper and willingly shered their peasant songs with hin, . The war cane to am ond and his musical education in Vienna started. jon ee ea fomee ot A ale ee ab ed bhatt of atannt anata sot DILL @ teacher, AU Schoenber es Bovea MEOW AD VA VUE MD iy ria only educated his talented student along the most extrem: modernistic lines but also implanted in him the taste for such forceful classical music as Bach. To earn money for his musical education Eisler worked as a proofreader and conmlucted Worker's Song Vereins (Societies). , Eisler finished his education brilliantly. Sverything directed the composer to ths easy road in life. But he did not take it. He was already toc disgusted with the bourgeoisie concert hall where in a musical narcosis the seavuwnanta aattiafisad thain maisal eppetites. A feeling of anarchist protest ows el ed, rey 1474 2s WSIS i ners BB 2 ei, Wk ee eee Oe Oe ee awoke in the young composer. He e created a series of ®romances" based c on news~ paper notices, aivertisements, inquiries. For exanple, under the title of "Romance of Love" there appeared .... an announcement from t’?.e matrinonial paper: Where is the one who extends his hand to m to take me away from the parental abode?" I am 23 years old. I am froma landed fanily. It is said, I am not hard to look at. I am healthy. I know how to keep house. Write: c/o General Delivery..." In 1927 Eisler wholeheartedly joined the proletarian “agitpropgroup" v (agitation Propaganda group) movement and worked as . musical expert on a polit ical feuilleton, "Song of the Miner*. | wvalia's March", "Song of Solidarity", "“Defen: | ’ the Soviet Union*, "Song of the] Uneuployed" are only a smali part of the long ' dist of Eisler's political song§. Unfortunately only a few of them are publis:..d by Use oe | ' oie pore oc ea HIN) 3 , CME UY PHO: 7b