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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 338,130 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Hanns Eisler is the 271st most popular composer (up from 281st in 2019), the 1,056th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,034th in 2019) and the 41st 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 271 out of 1,216Before him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, André Grétry, Gaspare Spontini, Johan Halvorsen, Cole Porter, and Johann Mattheson. After him are Jaufre Rudel, Johann Jakob Froberger, Clément Janequin, Aaron Copland, Stefania Turkewich, and Carl Reinecke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Hanns Eisler ranks 52Before him are Joris Ivens, Vicente Aleixandre, Héctor Scarone, Totò, Josef Terboven, and Latife Uşşaki. After him are Stefania Turkewich, Felix Kersten, Günther Korten, Lotte Lenya, Kurt Tank, and Carl Clauberg. Among people deceased in 1962, Hanns Eisler ranks 34Before him are Ronald Fisher, Alfred Cortot, Hans Lammers, Georgios Papanikolaou, Charles Laughton, and Jacques Ibert. After him are Gabriele Münter, Killing of Peter Fechter, Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Eiji Yoshikawa, Shunroku Hata, and André Lhote.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hanns Eisler ranks 1,056 out of 6,142Before him are Walter Christaller (1893), Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696), Lucian Freud (1922), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), and Princess Alexandrine of Baden (1820). After him are Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), Gabriele Münter (1877), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Rainer Weiss (1932), Karl von Bülow (1846), and Johann Jakob Froberger (1616).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Hanns Eisler ranks 41Before him are Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724), Carl Stamitz (1745), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), and Johann Mattheson (1681). After him are Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Carl Reinecke (1824), Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Georg Böhm (1661), and Samuel Scheidt (1587).