Kurt Weill
German-born American composer of stage works and Gebrauchsmusik.
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His stage works, created in partnership with Bertolt Brecht, brought him his greatest fame.[1] Weill believed music should have a social function, a concept known as Gebrauchsmusik.[2]
Making and release
At age twelve he started piano lessons and made his first attempts at writing music.[3] Weill graduated with an Abitur in 1918 and enrolled at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik, studying composition with Engelbert Humperdinck.[4] Weill's studies with Busoni in composition and with Philipp Jarnach in counterpoint lasted from January 1921 through December 1923.[5] The first public performance of a Weill musical theatre piece was his children's pantomime Die Zaubernacht, which premiered on November 18, 1922, at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm.[5]
The Threepenny Opera, a work created with Bertolt Brecht, opened at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in August 1928.[6][7] On August 27, 1943, Weill was granted United States citizenship.[4]
What the cited sources add
The Spartacus-Educational account states that in 1936 Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford of the Group Theatre commissioned Weill to write the music for Johnny Johnson, an anti-war play by Paul Green.[8] The same source notes that Weill wrote music for several Hollywood films including You and Me (1938), Blockade (1938), and Knickerbocker Holiday (1944).[8] Scott Miller's analysis reports that Weill's music publisher wrote to him that during the Nazi period, songs of Die Dreigroschenoper served as spiritual rejuvenation for many oppressed souls.[6] The Spartacus account reports that Weill was a socialist and was forced to flee Germany when Hitler gained power in 1933.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Kurt Weill" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; "Kurt Weill"; "Mack the Knife" – Sinatra Song of the Century #95 by Mark Steyn, December 8, 2015 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kurt Weill" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kurt Weill. Cjschuler.net. Retrieved on August 22, 2011.; Jarman 1982, p. 34 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kurt Weill" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Kurt Weill Dead; Composer, Was 50", The New York Times, April 4, 1950, p. 28; Hinton Schebera 2000, p. 540 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kurt Weill" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Kurt Weill Dead; Composer, Was 50", The New York Times, April 4, 1950, p. 28 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kurt Weill" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hinton Schebera 2000, p. 540 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Scott Miller, "Inside Threepenny: Background and Analysis", New Line Theatre. facts only, no text reused. newlinetheatre.com
- Wikipedia, "Kurt Weill" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kurt Weill . Spartacus-Educational.com (April 3, 1950). Retrieved on August 22, 2011.; Scott Miller, "Inside Threepenny: Background and Analysis", New Line Theatre; Hinton 2012, p. xiii; Hinton 2012, p. xiii (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Kurt Weill . Spartacus-Educational.com (April 3, 1950). Retrieved on August 22, 2011.. facts only, no text reused. spartacus-educational.com
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