University of Southern California, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library
Eisler (Hanns) papers, 1942-1948
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Hanns Eisler papers
- Dates:
- 1942-1948
- Creators:
- Eisler, Hanns
- 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.
- Extent:
- 3 Linear Feet 7 boxes
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Hanns Eisler papers, Collection no. 0207, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Included in the Lion Feuchtwanger estate which was given to USC by Marta Feuchtwanger.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Exiles -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Composition (Music) -- Archival resources
Exiles -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Sound recordings
Photographs
Correspondence - Names:
- Feuchtwanger, Lion -- Archives
Eisler, Hanns -- Archives
Mann, Heinrich -- Archives
Feuchtwanger, Marta -- Archives - Places:
- Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Archival resources
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-07-02 15:41:47 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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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.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Hanns Eisler papers, Collection no. 0207, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
- Location of this collection:
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Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
- Contact:
- (213) 740-5900
- Restrictions:
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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.
- Terms of access:
-
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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Hanns Eisler papers, Collection no. 0207, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
- Location of this collection:
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Special CollectionsDoheny Memorial Library, Room 209Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
- Contact:
- (213) 740-5900
Contents
Correspondence
Contents
Adressen
Miscellaneous items 6
Miscellaneous items 7 empty envelops
Christmas Cards no dates
Christmas Cards 1945 I
Christmas Cards 1945 II
Christmas Cards 1946
Christmas Cards 1947
Miscellaneous items 9, letters
Miscellaneous items 11, letters
Adler, Freyda
Adler, Kurt & Freyda
Adler, Pearl and Luther
Adorno, T.W. (correspondence to Mr. Vaudrin) see also Oxford UP, Grete Adorno
Alden, J. Jr.
Allen, Warren D. (re. White Floats; see also "White Floats" contract)
Alter, Henry
Angerstein, Irene (re Ernst Busch)
Bakaleinkoff, Constantin
Bauer, Felix
Becher, Johannes
Benes, Bohul (Czech consul)
Benes, Eduard (President of the Czech Republic) re Eisler's deportation
Benoit-Levy, Jean
Berlau, Ruth
Berner, Lizzy (see Universal-Edition) some discussion of Eisler's deportation
Boenheim, Felix MD (re support for Eisler)
Braun, R.A. (German book dealer)
Brecht, Bertolt
Brecht, Bertolt: "Private Life of the Master Race" review
Breiner, Leopoldine Reinisch MD
Brero-Cangallo, Cesare
Browne, Lewis
Busch, Ernst
Bush, Alan (re Eisler's deportation) see also Composers Guild of Great Britain
Carlson, Alfred
Carr, Bella (landlord for 162 South Burlingame Ave.)
Chaplin, Charles (studio & personal correspondence)
Chaplin, Oona
Chen, Tschin-Schin (to Karl Menges)
Chen, Tschin-Schin (Berkeley)
Chompinsky, Manuel (re. Concert in Coronet Theater, 1947)
Chudnow, David (contract with H. Eisler & legal questions)
Clark, Tom C. (U.S. Attorney General) re Eisler's deportation
Clurman, Harold (re support for Eisler)
Craig, Louise
Dikler, Fred
Doderar, Gusti von
Dudow, S. Th.
Durlach, Nat & Hannah (see also Clara Mayer)
Dyhr, Kaete (re people needing packages, husband in concentration camp)
Eisler, Armand & Mila
Eisler, Georg & Lotta (see also Phyllis Humphry)
Eisler family, Lotte & Georg
Eisler, Georg (1945?)
Eisler, Georg (1947)
Eisler, Georg (engravings)
Eisler, Georg (engravings), 1943-46
Eisler, Gerhart (in Vorbereitung fuer Washington DC)
Eisler, Gerhard (speech before HUAC)
Eisler, Gerhart & Hilde (1947) (re Unamerican Activities)
Eisler, Hanns to Lou
Eisler, Hanns to Lou
Eisler, Hanns (notes about inaccuracies in newspaper articles)
Eisler, Hanns (preface to Composing for the Films)
Eisler, Hanns about Ruth Fischer (sister)
Eisler, Hilde (see also Gerhart Eisler)
Eisler, Lou (to Hanns in 1945?)
Eisler, Lou (1947?)
Eisler, Lou (1947)
Eisler, Lou (to Alan ? re Hanns' hearing)
Eisler, Lou (to Berthold Viertel)
Eisler, Lou (to Harold? re position for Hanns)
Elisofon, Eliot & Mavis (some Unamerican notes)
Elsas, Marie (thank you letter for care package with info about husband Fritz Elsas, former mayor of Berlin and member of the resistance)
Ewen, David
Feuchtwanger, Lion
Finney, Ross Lee (Smith College) re article about American composers in 1943
Fischer, Ruth (Hanns Eisler's sister aka Elfriede Eisler, Elfriede Pleujot) re Gerhart frameup and financial assistance
Fischer-Pollak, Else
Forer, Joseph (Greenberg, Forer & Rein-attorneys) re Unamerican Activitites
Frank, Felix Howard
Frankl, Felix
Freedman, William (re contract & payment)
Friedgood, Harry B. MD
Frischauer, Leo
Gessnre, Bob
Gilbert, Elke (Schneiderin)
Gilbert, Robert (and subscribers list)
Goedhart, Gerda
Goldwyn, Samuel Mrs.
Gosztonyi, Maria
Gottfried, Rosa (re uncle Armand Eisler)
Gould, Diana (re house for rent)
Greissle, Felix (Schirmer)
Greissle, Gertrud (Trudi) & Felix
Grune, Karl
Habermann, Anni (thank you for care package)
Halvorson, Henry M (Ginn and Co. Educational Publishers)
Hambleton, T. Edward (Empire Theatre)
Harris, Russel G. (re film "White Floats")
Hauptmann, Elisabeth
Hauska, Hans
Hays, Hoffman
Henreid, Paul & Lisl
Herzfelde, Wieland
Heym, Stefan re "Hostages"
Hirsch, Marian
Horenstein, Jascha & Rose
Humphry, Phyllis (re Lotta & Georg Eisler)
Isserman
Ivens, Joris
Joles, Franticek
Katz, Charles (Hanns Eisler's letter from Oct. 1946 to Katz re US activities)
Kiesler, S.
King, Carol (deportation lawyer)
Kleinsmid, Rufus von (re Eisler teaching at USC)
Knothe, Helen & Scott
Paul Kohner
Kolisch, Rudolf
? Korchein, Polly to Elisabeth Neumann?
Kori, Mia
Krenek, Ernst
Kudernatsch
Kuehl, Kate
Landa y Pina, Andres (Department de Migration, Mexico)
Lania, Leo
LeRoy, Edna Murphy (re house in Malibu)
Lima, Agnes de to Clara Mayer, New School
Linehart (re deportation)
Lomax, Alan (see Office of War Information)
Lorre, Peter
Losey, Joseph
Lubner, Frank
Magil, A.B. - New Masses (re protest meeting for Howard Fast, Oct. 16) also re helping Eisler
Malone, Ludmila & Charles (re house at 689 So, Amalfi Dr.)
Mann, Katia (letter from Benes, Czech consul, Oct. 1947)
Marcu, E.
Marshall, John (Rockefeller Foundation)
Marton, Goerge (agent)
Massing, Hede
Matejka, Viktor (Stadtrat fuer Kultur und Volksbildung, Wien)
Matejka (re Austrian exit visa, Oct. 1947)
Mayer, Clara (New School for Social Research)
McGinty, Billy
Menges, Karl (see also Tschin-Schin Chen)
Morgenstern, Soma
Morris, Edita & Ira
Muhlrad, Caecile
Murphy, Dudley (Mr. Hadley) re house on Amalfi Dr. (see also Peter Rice)
New School for Social Research (see Clara Mayer)
Norman, Theodore (violinist)
Odets, Bette & Clifford
Piscator, Erwin
Pozner, Vladimir
Quinto, O. Leonard (Ph.D. dissertation Music in the Films)
Ratz, Edwin (see also Lizzy Berner)
Ratz, Lonny
Rauhenbach
Reichenbach, Hermann
Reinisch-Breiner, Leopoldine MD
Reis, Claire (re book about composers living in the US)
Renoir, Jean
Rice, Peter T. (lawyer) - (see also Taub & Geller)
Rice, Peter (see also Dudley Murphy)
Riess, Curt (see also Theaterverlag Reiss AG)
Roberts, Ernest ? (re New York performance)
Robinson, Earl
Rockefeller Foundation (see John Marshall)
Rosendahl, Henny/Jenny?
Rosenfeld, Lulla & Paul (re Paris trip 1947)
Roth, Wolfgang
Rubsamen, Walter (see Institute on Music In Contemporary Life - UCLA)
Rukeyser, Muriel
Saidenberg, Theodore
Schmid, Josef
Schoen, Robert (45/44?)
Schoenberg, Arnold
Schumacher, Sylvia & Joachim
Schumann, William (Sarah Lawrence College, NY)
Seeger, Charles (Pan American Union)
Sieroty, Julain (re offer for housing during Oct. 1947)
Sillen, Samuel - Mainstream Literary Quarterly (re "Artists Fight Back" Meeting June 1947)
Silvers, Clara (re Piano Opus 3 & 8)
Simon, Raymond
Sirk, Douglas (christmas card)
Smith, Maurice DDS
Soffer, Jacques
Spaeth, Sigmund
St. Joseph, Ellis
Stein, Marie Devening
Stephens, Donald & Inky
Stephens, Don & Inky (re Unamerican Activities) long letter from Lou Eisler about situation
Stern, Alfred K. (re payment for)
Steuermann, Edward
Steuermann, Hilda
Stewart, Paul (Paramount Pictures) re Unamerican Activities
Stokowski
Strang, Gerald
Strassberg, Paula & Lee
Swisher, Harold
Taub, Leo (re immigration to US)
Taub & Geller (see also Peter Rice)
Taylor, Deems (re "Arts for Russia Week" see also ASCAP)
Thomson, Virgil (see Film Composers Committee - Beverly Hills)
Torberg, F.
Viertel, Berthold
re Viertel, Berthold (Die Tribune)
Walker, Jules
Warren, Constance (Sarah Lawrence College)
Weil, Felix
Weinert, Erich
Wirin, A.L. (lawyer) re deportation
Wolf, Friedrich
Zeisel, Ilse
Correspondence business and organizational
Contents
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (see also "None but the Lonely Heart" score ; see also "Scandal in Paris)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (check from Eisler)
American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born
American Society for Composers, Artists and Publishers
American Society of Composers, Authors and Pubishers [ASCAP] (with agreement)
American Youth for Democracy inviting H. Eisler as guest to support him (Nov. 1947)
ASCAP (see also Deems Taylor)
Arnold Productions, Inc.
"Arts for Russia" week (see Deems Taylor)
ASCAP (see American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
Beer, Gustave--President of ALACA (American League of Authors & Composers from Austria)
Biographical Encyclopedia of the World
Civil Rights Congress - Dasheill Hammett (support for H. Eisler)
Columbia Pictures Corp.
Committee on Unamerican Activities correspondence
Composers Guild of Great Britain (support letter for H. Eisler, Sept. 1947, from Alan Bush with draft of letter from Lou Eisler)
Composing for the Films (see Oxford University Press)
Conference on Cultural Freedom and Civil Liberties (Oct. 1947) supporting H. Eisler
Council for Community Action (re displaced persons)
County of Los Angeles
Current Biography
Empire Theatre (see Edward Hambleton)
Film Composers' Committee -- Beverly Hills, CA
Film Music Project (final report) 2 drafts
Gong Productions (see also "Jealousy" contract)
Hollywood Independent Citizen's Committee
The Hollywood Quarterly (re meeting for editors and staff)
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Institute on Music In Contemporary Life -- UCLA, Sept. 17, 1944
The League of Composers, Inc.
Life Magazine (re article about Gerhart Eisler)
Los Angeles Times
MCA Artists, Ltd.
Motion Picture Producers & Distributors
Musicians Local 47
Musicians Mutual Protective Assoc. (Local 47 AF of M)
National Film Music Council
New School for Social Research-Rockefeller Trust
New School for Social Research (see also Mayer, Clara)
Occidental College
Office of War Information (Alan Lomax) re German music
Oxford University Press (correspondence re Composing for the Films)
Pan American Union (see Charles Seeger)
Paramount Pictures (see Paul Stewart)
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Rockefeller Foundation (see John Marshall)
Rockefeller Music Project (Alexander / New School for Social Research)
Rockefeller Trust (see New School for Social Research)
Russian War Relief (calendar)
Screen Composer's Association
Sound Services, Inc. agreement
Theaterverlag Reiss AG, Basel
Universal-Edition (Viennese publisher) - royalties
Universal-Edition (correspondence from Lizzy Berner and Schlee)
University of California, Los Angeles (see Institute on Music in Comtemporary Life)
Who's Who in the Western Hemisphere
Writers Congress at UCLA--October 1-3, 1943
Yaddo
Scores and Films
Contents
Critical Appraisal of Hanns Eisler's scores
"Alice in Wonderland" Lou Bunin Prod.
"Alice" score (correspondence re visas, expense, etc. - Lou Bunin Prod.)
"Circus" score
"Edge of Darkness" Warner Brothers Film
"Furcht und Elend des dritten Reiches"
"Hangmen also Die" (see "No Surrender")
"Hostages" (see Stefan Heyms)
"Jealousy" contract (Goliath?) (see also Gong Productions)
"Mr. Pickwick's Papers" contract with Deccs Records, Inc.
"No Surrender" contract (with Sam Coslow & Hanns Eisler)
"None But the Lonely Heart" score
"None but the Lonely Heart" (see also Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
"Peat-Boy Soldiers" music
"Scandal in Paris" (see also Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
"Song of Freedom" (see "The Unconquered")
"The Spanish Main" (RKO Contract)
"The Unconquered" (motion picture) "Song of Freedom"
"14 Arten den Regen zu beschreiben"- about
"White Floats" (see also Russel Harris)
"Woman on the Beach" - contract with RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Manuscripts
Contents
Entwurf einer Radiobotschaft nach Oesterreich
Misc. Unamerican Activities statements
"Music & Film" (German draft) 8 pages
Vorschlaege fuer ein oesterreichisch-amerikanisches Freiheitskomitee
Personal Information
Contents
Hanns Eisler autobiographical information
Erklaerung fuer Hanns Eisler (re Unamerican Activities)
Pressedienst "Verfolgung deutscher Antifaschisten in USA geht weiter" re H. Eisler. Sept. 1947
Automobile accident correspondence (Dec. 24, 1945) Cass & Johansing
Eisler vs. Musch (correspondence) auto accident
Automobile Club of Southern California (car insurance)
Automobile information
Bank of America (loan papers)
Mileage ration cards
CARE-Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe
Driver's license for Louise Anna Eisler
Internal Revenue 1944
Internal Revenue 1945
Packages to Europe
Receipts for registered mail
Piano rental
Quittung fuer Koffertransport, Prag 1937
Spanish visa/passport (1937) for Hanns Eisler
Social security cards
Telephone bills
Toll service and telegram bills
Visa information - Eislers
Contents
Misc. materials
Contents
Excerpt Huckleberry Finn
Bio Robert Henried
Notizen: Werklisten (von Lou)
Library card for New York Public Library (1944)
Notiz zu HUAC, 1947
Photos
Contents
Fotos
Records
Contents
Records with Eisler's recordings for diverse films. Original records and digitized versions available
Background
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#2069, V:13 Take 4
#2069, M:18 Take 8
#2069, M:10 Take 7-8
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:94 Take 3
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:43 Take 2, M:16 Take 2
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:27 Take 6
Eisler 11-12-42
4-1
M1-1
M1-2
M2-R
M2-1
M3-R
M3-1
M4-R
?
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#530 Woman on the Beach, M:44, Take 6
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:11 Take 5, M:76 Take 2
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:98 Take 2, M:96 Take 3
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#2069, M:128A Take 6, M:129 Take 1
#2069, M:37 Take 3
#2069, M:128B Take 3-5
10/13/47 Part two copy, "Galileo-Scene 9-Ballad"
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#530 Woman on the Beach, M:73 Take 1
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#2069, M:40A Take 4, M:123 Take 2
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#2069, M:100 Take 1
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:10 Take 7-8
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:53 Take 7
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#2069, M:68 Take 4
#2069, M:116 Take 3
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:77 Take 1, M:30 Take 2
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:51A Take 2
#2069, M:45 Take 6, M:81A Take 1
#2069, M:110 Take 1
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:82 Take 7
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:18 Take 3
#530 Woman on the Beach, M:84 Take 4
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#2069, V:13-7-8
#2069, M:115 Take 1-2
#2069, V:13-6
#2069, M:23 Take 4-6
#2069, M:65A Take 1
#530 Woman on the Beach M:91 Take 4, M:91A Take 1
#2069, M:35 Take 2
#530 Woman on the Beach M:71 Take 2, M:47 Take 1
#530 Woman on the Beach M:50 Take 5
#530 Woman on the Beach M:20 Take 5
#2069 V:128 Take 1-2-3
#530 Woman on the Beach M:51 Take 3
#2069 M:96 Take 7
#530 Woman on the Beach M:60 Take 3, M:90 Take 4, M:59 Take 5
Records digitized from Box 6a (2 sets)
record with Eisler recordings (not digitized yet)
Background
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Description side 1: 531 M27 T6 side 2: 531 M20 T-1-2