Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill (March 2, 1900 - April 3, 1950) was a German composer.

He was born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York.

After growing up in a religious Jewish family in Germany, Weill fled the newly Nazi-dominated Germany in March 1933 to Paris and in 1935 further on to the United States. He married actress Lotte Lenya[?] twice: in 1926 and, after their divorce in 1933, again in 1937.

• 1925 - Violin Concerto
• 1928 - The Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht)
• 1930 - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Bertolt Brecht)
• 1932 - The Pledge[?] (Caspar Neher[?])
• 1933 - The Seven Deadly Sins[?] (Bertolt Brecht)
• 1941 - Lady in the Dark[?] (Moss Hart and Ira Gershwin)
• 1947 - Street Scene[?] (Elmer Rice[?] and Langston Hughes)
• 1949 - Lost in the Stars[?] (Maxwell Anderson[?])

External link

• Kurt Weill Foundation (http://www.kwf.org/)