A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

20; Six Ballads (after Weber Brecht and Walter Mehring); Four Ballads (after B. Before he left he read a statement:

"I leave this country not without bitterness and infuriation. Family background
Eisler was born in Leipzig the second son and third (youngest) child of Marie (née Fischer) and Rudolf Eisler a professor of philosophy at Leipzig.

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer.