Kurt Weill
02.03.1900—03.04.1950

Future Performances

The Threepenny Opera
08.02.2012, Alès (F)
The Threepenny Opera
09.02.2012, Chemnitz (D)
The Threepenny Opera
10.02.2012, Magdeburg (D)
The Threepenny Opera
10.02.2012, Guadalajara (MEX)
The Threepenny Opera
11.02.2012, Magdeburg (D)

News

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    Mahagonny: New productions in Tel Aviv and Vienna
    Mahagonny: New productions in Tel Aviv and Vienna
    From 12 Jan on Kurt Weill's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny can be seen at the Israeli [...]
  • Songs for Trumpet
    Kurt Weill - Songs
    Kurt Weill - Songs
    This new edition for trumpet and piano contains not only 10 well-known songs from Weill’s stage wo [...]
  • Kurt Weill - Songs
    Kurt Weill - Songs
    Kurt Weill - Songs
    This new edition for cello and piano contains not only 10 well-known songs from Weill’s stage work [...]
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    Pablo Heras-Casado on the music of Kurt Weill
    Pablo Heras-Casado on the music of Kurt Weill
    For the new issue of the Musikblätter, Pablo Heras-Casado talks to UE about the music of Kurt Weill [...]
  • New productions of Kurt Weill operas
    New productions of Kurt Weill operas
    Kurt Weill’s opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is now on in Cologne, and The Threep [...]

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Kurt Weill

The Composer

Early Years
Kurt Weill was born on 2 March 1900 in Dessau, Germany. The son of a cantor, Weill displayed musical talent early on. By the time he was twelve, he was composing and mounting concerts and dramatic works in the hall above his family's quarters in the Gemeindehaus. During the First World War, the teenage Weill was conscripted as a substitute accompanist at the Dessau Court Theater. After studying theory and composition with Albert Bing, Kapellmeister of the Theater, Weill enrolled at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, but found the conservative training and the infrequent lessons with Engelbert Humperdinck too stifling. After a season as conductor of the newly formed municipal [...]

10 of 97 Works

Alabama Song | from "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" | for voice and pia [...] –
Alabama Song | from "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" | for voice and ens [...] –
Alabama Song | for salon orchestra –
Alabama Song | for ensemble and voice ad lib. 1929
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny | opera in three acts 1929
6 ausgewählte Stücke aus "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" | for voice [...] –
Ballade vom angenehmen Leben | from "Die Dreigroschenoper" | for voice and pian [...] –
Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit und andere Songs | for voice and piano –
Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit | from "The Threepenny Opera" | for voice [...] 1928
"Song of Sexual Slavery" | from "Threepenny Opera" | arranged for alto (low) an [...] 1928

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