Charlotte Eisler was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n singer, pianist and music teacher associated with the Second Viennese School

Second Viennese School

The Second Viennese School is the group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils and close associates in early 20th century Vienna, where he lived and taught, sporadically, between 1903 and 1925...

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Born Charlotte Demant in Ternopil

Ternopil

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 (now in the Ukraine

Ukraine

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), her family moved to Czernowitz where she attended school. Early in the First World War, they moved to Vienna

Vienna

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. There Charlotte studied music. Her teachers included Anton Webern

Anton Webern

Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...

 and Eduard Steuermann

Eduard Steuermann

Eduard Steuermann was an Austrian pianist and composer. The actress Salka Viertel was his sister...

. As a student she met composers Arnold Schönberg and Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler was an Austrian composer.-Family background:Eisler was born in Leipzig where his Jewish father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy...

. She married Eisler in 1920, they separated in 1934. Artist Georg Eisler

Georg Eisler

Georg Eisler was an Austrian painter from the school of Oskar Kokoschka who lived from 1928 to 1998. His father Hanns Eisler was a composer and his mother Charlotte Eisler, née Demant a well-known singer and music teacher....

 was their only child.

Active in left-wing politics, Eisler was obliged to leave Vienna in 1934 for Bratislava

Bratislava

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. In 1936 she travelled to Moscow

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. Travelling back to Vienna in 1938, she learned in Prague

Prague

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 of the invasion by Nazi Germany

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 and subsequent Anschluss

Anschluss

The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....

. As a result, she travelled on to England with her son and remained there during the Second World War, finally returning to Vienna in 1946.

From 1947 until 1952 she taught song at the Konservatorium Wien

Konservatorium Wien

The Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität is a private music conservatory in Vienna, Austria established in 1938 as Musikschule der Stadt Wien.The school attained university status on June 15, 2005 as a private institution....

. She died in Vienna in 1970.