Michael Eisemann, actual name Mihály Eisemann, (b. June 19, 1898 in Paripás, Bács-Bodrog County, Kingdom of Hungary; † February 15, 1966 in Budapest) was a Hungarian composer of operetta and film music in the 1920s and 1930s.
He received his first piano lessons at the age of six from his father, who was a cantor. He also sang soprano in a church choir. He began composing as a high school student and earned money as a silent film accompanist. He began to study law, but after taking up his studies at the Budapest Academy of Music, he dropped out. There he studied with Leó Weiner and Zoltán Kodály, among others. In the evenings, he worked as a piano player in the Budapest Admiral Bar and began to compose. His wife Ilona Husz supported him in his work by, among other things, distributing free sheet music of his pieces to passers-by in order to spread the music and make it popular.
His first operetta, ''Miss America'', was written while he was still a student. This was followed by a total of about 30 more operettas, in which he also used jazz elements. He worked not only with Hungarian authors, but also with foreign colleagues such as Hugo Wiener, Fritz Löhner-Beda, and Charles Amberg.
He also wrote over 15 film scores. The 1931 film ''Hyppolit a lakáj'', in which there are several songs by him, was the second Hungarian sound film and was also shown in German cinemas under the title ''He and His Servant''. Eisemann died in 1966 and was buried in Budapest.
