Kurt Weill
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Biography
[Edit]The son of a cantor, Kurt Weill was born in Dessau into a family that took in operatic performances as a main form of entertainment. When Weill was in his teens the director of the Dessau Hoftheater, Albert Bing, encouraged him in the study of music. Weill briefly studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck and was already working professionally as a conductor when he attended composer Ferruccio Busoni's master classes in Berlin. Delighted to see the positive responses of an audience to his first collaboration with playwright Georg Kaiser, Der Protagonist (1926), he thereafter resolved to work toward accessibility in his music. In 1926 Weill married actress Lotte Lenya, whose reedy, quavering singing voice he called "the one I hear in my head when I am writing my songs."
In 1927 Weill began his collaboration with leftist playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht; their first joint venture, Mahagonny-Songspiel (1927), launched the number "Alabama Song," which, to their surprise, became a minor pop hit in Europe. The next show, Die Dreigroschenoper (The Three-Penny Opera, 1928), was a monstrous success, in particular the song "Moritat" ("Mack the Knife"). Nonetheless, strain in their association was already being felt, and after the completion of their magnificent "school opera" Der Jasager (1930), the two parted company. Brecht and Weill were brought together once more in Paris to create Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins) in 1934. In the meantime, Weill collaborated with Caspar Neher on the opera Die Bürgschaft (1931) and Georg Kaiser again on Der Silbersee (1933), works that garnered the hostile attention of the then-emerging Nazi party.
With the rise to power of Hitler, Weill and Lenya were forced to dissolve their union and flee Continental Europe. Weill found his way to New York in 1935; rejoining Lenya, Weill became a citizen and devoted himself to American democracy with a vengeance, preferring his name pronounced like "wile" rather than "vile." After a series of frustrating flops, Weill hit his stride with playwright Maxwell Anderson, producing his first hit, Knickerbocker Holiday (1938). In the dozen years left to him, Weill's stature on Broadway grew with a series of hit shows, including Lady in the Dark (1941), One Touch of Venus (1943), Love Life (1948), and Lost in the Stars (1949). Weill had ambitions to create what he regarded as "the first American folk opera"; the closest of his American works to reach that goal is Street Scene (1946), a sort of "urban folk opera" based on a play by Elmer Rice with lyrics by Langston Hughes.
On April 3, 1950, Weill unexpectedly suffered a massive coronary and died in Lenya's arms. Weill's estate was valued at less than 1,000 dollars, and Lenya realized that his contribution to musical theater was likewise undervalued. She commissioned composer Marc Blitzstein to adapt an English-language version of Die Dreigroschenoper; it opened off-Broadway in 1954 and ran for three years, touching off a Weill revival that continues to this day.
Title: Knickerbocker Holiday (Original Cast Recording)
Artist: Kurt Weill
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Humor
Title: Die Dreigroschenoper (Rias Berlin Sinfonietta Feat. Conductor: John Mauceri)
Artist: Kurt Weill
Genre: Classical
Title: The Threepenny Opera (Original Off Broadway Cast)
Artist: Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Jo Sullivan
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Street Scene (Original London Cast Complete Recording)
Artist: Kurt Weill
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Opera
Title: Tryout
Artist: Kurt Weill
Genre: Avant Garde Jazz, Avant Garde Metal, Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: Moving Forward - Reaching Back
Artist: Joe Beck, Kurt Weill, Mark Egan, Danny Gottlieb, Christoph Grab
Genre: Jazz
Artist: Otto Klemperer, The Members, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Marek Weber Orchestra, Gauty Lys, Ernst Busch, Lewis Ruth Band, Kurt Gerron, Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra, Marianne Oswald, Hans Sommer, Marek Weber, Harald Paulsen, Theo Mackeben, Erika Helmke, Maurice Abravanel, Carola Neher, Arthur Schroder, Dreigroschen Band, Ludwig Ruth, Dreigroschenoper Band, Wind Orchestra, Pierre Chagnon Orchestra, Odette Florelle, Jean Lenoir Orchestra, Gerda Madsen, Haller Revue Jazz Orchestra, Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra, Otto Pasetti, Alfred Schlee, Ultraphon Jazz Orchestra, Berlin Opera Chorus, Berlin City Opera Orchestra
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Collections
Title: September Songs (The Music of Kurt Weill)
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Title: LoveMusik (Soundtrack from the Musical)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Best Of Bossa Nova 2014
Genre: Jazz
Featuring albums
Title: The Heifetz Collection Vol. 19 - 51 Miniatures (CD 2)
Artist: Jascha Heifetz
Genre: Classical