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"the noted German composer who was exiled from his own country by the. fascist recently arrived in Mosco... Far us Eisler is, first of all, a song. It is wthe Red Wedding*, it 1 is "the Comintern". To the tune of Eisler's sangs the proletariate abroad fought In tbe barricades of Berlin and Vionna. With Bisler's scnge they started their demonstrations in Zurich and Antwerp. Singing Eisler's songs they stood in Strickers' picket lines on the streets of Copenhagen and Manchester. At the age of seventeen, when tisler was a quiet-mannered student, he was sent to th. front. His canpanions, Hongarian peasants, made fun of young mister-finikin who pulled on his gloves befare eating because he did not want. to eat with dirty hands aftar riding in a freight car for several days. But these same soldiers esteemed the young nan who conld write tunes down on paper and willingly shared their'peasant songs with hin. The war came to am end and his msical education in Vienna started. Young Bisler's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg, noted theorist of atonal smsic, not only educated his talented student along the most extreme modernistic lines but also i,planted in him the taste for such forceful classical wusic as Bach. To carn mooey for his musical education Eisler worked as a proofreader and conducted Jarker's Song Vereins (Socleties).. Eisler finished his education brilliantly. Sverything directed the couposer to tbs easy road in life. But ne did not take it. He was already toc disgusted with the bourgeoisie concert hall where in a musical narcosis the gourrands satisfied their musioal appetites. A feeling of anarchist protest awoke in the young composer. He created a series of *romancesn based on news-- Paper notices, advertisements, inquiries. Far exanple, umder the title of nRomance of Love" there appeared .... an annoumcement fron t/e matrimonial paper:. wwhere is the one who extends his hand to ne to take me away from the parental abode?" I am 23 years old. I am fron a landed faaily. It is said, I am not. hard to look at. I am healthy. I know how to keep house. rite: c/o General Dalivery...* In l92? sisler wholeheartedly joined the proletarian *agitpropgroup" j(agitation propaganda group) movement and worked as . musical erpert on s political fouilleton. "Song of the Miner". Invalid's March", "Song of Solidarity": "Defen.. tho Soviet Union*, *Song of the tnaployed" ars only a small part of the long list of Eisler's political song?. Unfortunately only a few of them are publisid. *sa sq ALL INFORMST 04 rOITA FD) WRENIS STs.