Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Content
Conditions Governing Access
Preferred Citation
Conditions Governing Use
Acquisition
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Hanns Eisler papers
creator:
Eisler, Hanns
Identifier/Call Number: 0207
Identifier/Call Number: 315
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
7 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1942-1948
Abstract: This rich collection contains Hanns Eisler's personal and business correspondence from his years in Southern California (1942-48).
In addition the archive contains a few biographical documents and photographs. The collection also contains several recordings
for films on records by Hanns Eisler.
Biographical/Historical note
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) was a German composer. His family moved to Vienna in 1902, and Eisler grew up and studied there,
most notably with Arnold Schoenberg in the early 1920s. He moved to Berlin in 1925. Due to his strongly Marxist political
convictions Eisler left Nazi Germany in 1933, and travelled extensively for four years. He began teaching at the New School
for Social Research in New York in 1938. Four years later he moved to Los Angeles, where he taught composition at UCLA, worked
closely with Bertolt Brecht, wrote scores for motion pictures, and co-authored with Theodor Adorno, "Composing for the Films."
He was expelled from the United States because of his Communist sympathies in March 1948, and settled in East Berlin for the
rest of his life, where he was professor at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik and continued to write for films, compose songs
and concert works.
Scope and Content
Collection contains Hanns Eisler's extensive personal and business correspondence from his years in Southern California (1942-48).
In addition the archive contains a few biographical documents and photographs. The collection also contains several recordings
for films on records by Hanns Eisler. The records have been digitalized and transfered to CDs.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection contains published materials; researchers are reminded of the copyright restrictions imposed by publishers
on reusing their articles and parts of books. It is the responsibility of researchers to acquire permission from publishers
when reusing such materials. The copyright to unpublished materials belongs to the heirs of the writers. Permission to publish,
quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hanns Eisler papers, Collection no. 0207, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Special Collections, USC
Libraries, University of Southern California
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Exile Studies Librarian
at ullmann@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Acquisition
Included in the Lion Feuchtwanger estate which was given to USC by Marta Feuchtwanger.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Exiles -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Sound recordings
Photographs
Composition (Music) -- Archival resources
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Archival resources
Exiles -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Feuchtwanger, Lion -- Archives
Eisler, Hanns -- Archives
Mann, Heinrich -- Archives
Feuchtwanger, Marta -- Archives