German born film composer (who after being deported from the United States in 1948, wrote
the East German national anthem) studied at the Vienna Conservatory before spending time
as a student of Schönberg. Eisler
worked with Brecht in Germany before leaving in 1933 for Holland, England, France and the
USSR.
Eisler was a modernist avant-garde composer whose Marxism was one of
the reasons for his deportation from the U.S. after being an 'unfriendly witness' to the
House of Un-American Activities Committee (McCarthy).
Her he continued his film work and in 1947 co-wrote Composing for
the Films with Theodor W. Adorno, one of the most influential philosophers and cultural
critics of this century.
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