Eric Zeisl was an Austrian-born American composer who trained in Vienna and, after emigrating to the United States in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, pursued a career writing concert works and film music within late-Romantic and neoclassical idioms. His music combined European training with American influences, incorporated Jewish liturgical themes particularly in works responding to the Holocaust, and encompassed orchestral, chamber, choral and film scores marked by lyrical writing and contrapuntal technique.
