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WPRAVDA" HANS FIStE? The noted German coaposer who was exiled frou his owm oountry by tho Fascist recently arrired in Moscow.. Tor us Eisler is, first of all, a song. It is "the Red Wedding". it is "the Conintern". To the tune of Eisler'e congs the proletariat abroad. Yought in the barricades of Berlin and Vienna. With Eisler's song,. they started their demonstrations in Zurich and Antwerp. Singing Eigler'. songe thay stood in strickars' picket lines on the streets of Copenhagen and. Ms chester.. At the age of seventeen, yhen Risler was a quiet-nannered student. ho was sent to th. front. Hi. coupanions, Hungarian peasants, made fun cf young mister-finikin who pulled on hls gloves before eating because he did not vant to eat with dirty hands after riding in a freight car for several days. But theee seme soldiere estsemed the young man who cauld write tumes. dowa on paper and willing'y shared their peasant songs vith hin. The war ca.. to an cnd and his musicel edncation in Yiemna started. Young Lisler'. teacher, Arnold Schoenberg, noted theorist of atanel music, not oaly educatod his talented student alang the wost extreme aodernistio lines but aleo implanted in him the taste Yor such forceful classical masic as Bach. To earn money for his gusical cducation Eieler worked as a proof- Feader and candncted Worker's Song Vereins (Societies). Fisler finished his ducation brilliantly. Lrerything directed t:e. composer to the easy road In life. But he did not take it. He was already too disgusted with the bourgeoisi. concert hall where in a musical narcosis. the gourmands satisfied their musical appetitee. A feeling of anarchist pro- test awoke in th. young corponor. Hs ereated a series of "romances" based. On now paper notices, adrertisements, inquirios.. For erapio, under the titie of *Honance oi Love' there appares.. an announcenent from the matrimonial paper:. Owhere is the one who oxtends his hand to me to take me away. from the parental abodet" *I am 23 years old. I an fron a landed family. It is said,. I am not hard to look at. I am healthy. I know how to keep house.. Write: c/o Generai Delitery...". In l927 Eisler wholeheartedly Joined the proletarian "agltpropgro (agitation propaganda group) movement and worked as musieal expert on a political feuill ton. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINEDS HEREIN IS UNCLA IED DATEZAz[80_BY sPJGsK