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ah Te cele SE AE ee *PRAVDA® The noted German composer who was exiled fron his owm country by the Fascist recently arrived in Moscow. td » a wi » lJ 3 q For us Fisler ia, first of all, a sonz. It fe "the Red Wedding", it ie "the Comintern", To the tune of Eleler's congs the proletariat abroad fought in the barricades of Berlin and Vienna. With Eisler's songs they started their demonstrations in Zurich and Antwerp, Singing Eisler’a songs .2:. hay atood in strickers' picket lines on the streets of Copenhagen and Msn chester. At the age of soventesn, when Bisler was a quicst-mannered student, he was sent to the front. His companions, Hungarian peasants, made fun cof 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 theee same soldiera esteemed the young man who could write tmes down on paper and willingly shared their peasant songs vith hin. _ The war came to an end and his mesicel-education in Vienna staried, | “* - Young Eisler's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg, noted theorist of atonel music, ~ not only educated his talented student along the most extreme mdernistio lines but also implanted in him the taste for such forceful classical misic as Bach, To earn money for his musical education Eisler worked as a proof- Teatier and conducted Worker's Song Vereins (Societies). y Fisler finished his education brilliantly, Everything directed te 1 gomposer to the easy road in life, But he did not take it, He was already too disgusted with the bourgeoisie concert hall where in a musical narcosis the gourmands satisfied thelr musical appetites, A feeling of anarchist pro- est awoke in the young comoser, He created a series of "romances" based ‘6m newspaper notices, advertisenents, inquiries, , r For exanpia, under the title of “Romance of Love" there apr ares... an announcement from the matrimonial paper: ®Where is the one who extends his hand to me to take me away from the parental abodet* ‘ *®I an 23 years old. I am fron a landed family. It is said, IY am not hard to look at. I am healthy. I ‘mow how to keep house, Write: c/o General Delifery..." In 1927 Eisler who cheartedly joined the proletorian “agitpropgro * ~ (agitation propaganda group) jn movement and worked as musical expert on a political feullleton. rt nFORATON NTA t. HEREN IS Wit" sy, 1 INE Zippy ellie