Kurt Weill
Born: 2nd March 1900, Dessau-Rosslau, Germany
Died: 3rd April 1950, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: German
Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes.
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- A Clear Midnight (1)
- A Noiseless Patient Spider (1)
- Alabama Song (from Mahagonny) (7)
- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (2)
- Beat! Beat! Drums! (No. 1 from Four Walt Whitman Songs) (1)
- Complainte de la Seine (Text: Maurice Magre) (4)
- Der Abschiedsbrief (3)
- Don’t Look Now (1)
- Es regnet (2)
- Great Big Sky (1)
- Green Up Time (1)
- Je ne t'aime pas (text: Maurice Magre) (7)
- Kanonensong (from Die Dreigroschenoper) (1)
- Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (1)
- Knickerbocker Holiday (4)
- Knickerbocker Holiday: It Never Was You (4)
- Lady in the Dark (3)
- Little Tin God (1)
- Lonely House from Street Scene (4)
- Lost in the stars (29)
- Lover Man (2)
- Mahagonny Songspiel (1)
- Marie Galante (Lyrics: Jacques Deval/Roger Fernay) (1)
- Moritat von Mackie Messer (from The Threepenny Opera) (51)
- My ship (65)
- Nanna's lied (Text: Bertolt Brecht) (3)
- One Life to Live (1)
- One Touch of Venus (4)
- One Touch of Venus: I'm A Stranger Here Myself (3)
- River Chanty (1)
- September Song (96)
- Speak low (99)
- Street Scene (1)
- Surabaya Johnny (from Happy End) (5)
- Tango Ballad (1)
- That's Him (4)
- The Saga of Jenny (1)
- The Seven Deadly Sins (1)
- This is new (13)
- Trouble Man (1)
- What good would the moon be? (1)
- Youkali (8)
- Your Technique (1)
