1894-1979. German composer. He work includes
incidental music to Bertolt Brecht's theatre
pieces, an opera, Der Verurteilung des
Lukullus 1949, also to a libretto by Brecht,
and numerous choral works and songs. He
studied in Berlin, becoming a theatre
conductor until moving to Paris in 1933,
where he studied Schoenberg's serial method
with Rena Leibowitz. He collaborated with
Brecht from 1942, when they met as political
exiles in the US, returning with him to East
Berlin 1948.