Feuchtwanger Memorial Library

HANNS EISLER COLLECTION INVENTORY

General Correspondence | Business Correspondence | Scores and Films | Manuscripts | Personal information

BOX 1

General Correspondence

Unidentified correspondents

Christmas cards - 1945

Christmas cards-1946

Christmas cards - 1947

Correspondents A-Z

Adler, Freyda

Adler, Kurt & Freyda

Adler, Freyda (re Unamerican Activities)

Adler, Pearl & Luther

Adorno, T.W. (correspondence to Mr. Vaudrin) (see also Vaudrin)

Alden, J. Jr.

Allen, Warren D.

Allen, Warren (see also "White Floats" contract)

Alter, Henry

Angerstein, Irene (re Ernst Busch)

Bakaleinkoff, Constantin

Bauer, Felix

Becher, Johannes

Benes, Bohul (Czech consul) (see also Katia Mann)

Benes, Eduard (President of the Czech Republic) re Eisler's deportation

Berlau, Ruth

Berner, Lizzy (re Eisler's deportation)

Berner, Lizzy (see also Universal-Edition)

Boenheim, Felix MD (re support for Eisler)

Braun, R.A. (German book dealer)

Brecht, Bertolt

re Brecht, Bertolt "Private Life of the Master Race" review

Breiner, Leopoldine Reinisch MD

Brero-Cangallo, Cesare

Browne, Lewis

Busch, Ernst (see Irene Augerstein)

Bush, Alan (re Eisler's deportation)

Bunin, Lou (see "Alice in Wonderland")




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Carlson, Alfred

Carr, Bella (landlord for 162 South Burlingame Ave.)

Chaplin, Charles (studio & personal correspondence)

Chaplin, Oona

Chen, Tschin-Schin (to Karl Menges)

Chen (re Unamerican Activities)

Chen, Tschin (to Karl Menges)

Chudnow, David (contract with H. Eisler & legal questions)

Coslow, Sam (see "No Surrender" contract)

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, Käte (re people needing packages, husband in concentration camp)

Eisler family

Eisler, Armand & Mila

Eisler, Armand (see Rosa Gottfried)

Eisler, Elfriede

Eisler, Georg & Lotta

Eisler, Georg & Lotta (see also Phyllis Humphry)

Eisler, Georg (1945?)

Eisler, Georg (1947)

Eisler, Georg (engravings)

Eisler, Gerhart (see also Hilde Eisler)

Eisler, Gerhart (in Vorbereitung für Washington DC)

Eisler, Gerhart & Hilde (1947) (re Unamerican Activities)

Eisler, Gerhard (speech before HUAC)

Eisler, Gerhart (see also Ruth Fischer)

Eisler, Hanns

Eisler, Hanns to Lou

Eisler, Hanns (notes about inaccuracies in newspaper articles)

Eisler, Hanns (preface to Composing for the Films)

Eisler, Hanns (see also Critical Appraisal of H. Eisler's scores)

Eisler, Hilde (see also Gerhart Eisler)

Eisler, Lou (to Hanns) (see also Hanns Eisler)

Eisler, Lou (to Hanns in 1945?)

Eisler, Lou (1947?) mentioning divorce

Eisler, Lou (to Alan ? re Hanns hearing)

Eisler, Lou (to Berthold Viertel)

Eisler, Lou (to Harold? re position for Hanns)

Eisler, Lou (see also Don Stephens)

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

Fast, Howard (see A.B. Magil)

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

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

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Gessnre, Bob

Gilbert

Gilbert, Robert (and subscribers list)

Ginn and Co. Educational Publishers (see Henry Halvorson)

Goedhart, Gerda

Goldwyn, Samuel Mrs.

Gosztonyi, Maria

Gottfried, Rosa (re uncle Armand Eisler)

Gould, Diana (re house for rent)

Greenberg, Herman (see Joseph Forer)

Greissle, Gertrud (Trudi) & Felix

Grune, Karl

Habermann, Anni (thank you for care package)

Hadley, Mr. (see Dudley Murphy)

Halvorson, Henry M (Ginn and Co. Educational Publishers)

Hambleton, T. Edward (Empire Theatre)

Hammett, Dasheill (see Civil Rights Congress)

Harris, Russel G. (re film "White Floats")

Hauptmann, Elisabeth

Hauska, Hans

Hays, Hoffman

Henreid, Lisl & Paul (Monica & Maria)

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 Inc.

Kolisch, Rudolf

? Korchein, Polly to Elisabeth Neumann?

Kori, Mia

Krenek, Ernst

Kudernatsch

Kuehl, Kate

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 für 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, Cécile

Murphy, Dudley (Mr. Hadley) re house on Amalfi Dr. (see also Peter Rice)

BOX 4

Neumann, Elisabeth

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, Leonard

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

Taffel, Bess

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.

Van Dongen, Helen

Vaudrin, R. (re book on motion pictures and music with Adorno)

Viertel, Berthold

re Viertel, Berthold (Die Tribune)

Viertel, Berthold (see also Lou Eisler)

Weil, Felix

Weinert, Erich

Wirin, A.L. (lawyer) re deportation

Wolf, Friedrich

Zeisel, Ilse

BOX 5

Correspondence with businesses and organizations

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 Britian (support letter for H. Eisler, Sept. 1947, from Alan Bush with draft of letter from Lou Eisler)

Composing for the Films (see also Oxford University Press)

Conference on Cultural Freedom and Civil Liberties (Oct. 1947) supporting H. Eisler

Council for Community Action (re displaced persons)

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)

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 also 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 & Films

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)

"Kindergarten Suite" - correspondence about

"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" score (correspondence with Warren Allen)

"White Floats" (see also Russel Harris)

"Woman on the Beach" - contract with RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Manuscripts

Entwurf einer Radiobotschaft nach Österreich

Misc. Unamerican Activities statements

"Music & Film" (German draft) 8 pages

Vorschläge für ein oesterreichisch-amerikanisches Freiheitskomitee

Personal Information

Hanns Eisler autobiographical information

Erklärung für 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

Mileage ration cards

Bank of America (loan papers)

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

Library card for New York Public Library (1944)

 

BOX 6

#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
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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