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Hanns Eisler

1898 - 1962

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Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hanns Eisler has received more than 365,298 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Hanns Eisler is the 267th most popular composer (up from 271st in 2019), the 1,057th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,056th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Composer.

Hanns Eisler was a German composer and music theorist who was born in Austria. He is most famous for his compositions that were used in communist propaganda in the Soviet Union.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hanns Eisler ranks 267 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Dimitri Tiomkin, Johann Mattheson, Carl Friedrich Abel, Fromental Halévy, and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After him are Engelbert Humperdinck, Ernst von Dohnányi, Georges Auric, Gioseffo Zarlino, Alan Silvestri, and Carl Reinecke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Hanns Eisler ranks 53. Before him are Totò, Fritz Zwicky, Peggy Guggenheim, Julius Schreck, Joseph Murphy, and Felix Kersten. After him are Henry Hathaway, Giuseppe Saragat, Josef Terboven, Carl Clauberg, Günther Korten, and Inejiro Asanuma. Among people deceased in 1962, Hanns Eisler ranks 36. Before him are Hans Lammers, Ronald Fisher, Ivan Meštrović, Jacques Ibert, C. Wright Mills, and Stuart Sutcliffe. After him are Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Georgios Papanikolaou, Killing of Peter Fechter, Eiji Yoshikawa, Dušan Simović, and André Lhote.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hanns Eisler ranks 1,057 out of 7,253. Before him are Manfred Rommel (1928), Bert Sakmann (1942), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Michel Bréal (1832), and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719). After him are Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Anthony of Saxony (1755), Hermann Kolbe (1818), Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Hanns Eisler ranks 39. Before him are Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Johann Mattheson (1681), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709). After him are Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Carl Reinecke (1824), Carl Stamitz (1745), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Johann van Beethoven (1740), and Friedrich Kuhlau (1786).

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