Hanns Eisler
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Emerging from a modest Viennese background, he taught himself music before studying with Arnold Schoenberg between 1919 and 1923, becoming the first of the master’s pupils to adopt twelve-tone techniques. His partnership with Bertolt Brecht produced politically charged songs and theater music, notably for the working-class film Kuhle Wampe (1931-32), and later for Brecht’s plays such as The Mother…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources