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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 ...
Mar 25, 2021 · Share full article. When the composer Kurt Weill was a teenager in Germany, as seen here in 1919, he was already showing signs of what would shape his Broadway sound. Hoenisch, via Weill-Lenya...
May 29, 2018 · An intriguing figure in twentieth-century music, Kurt Weill was a unique composer who virtually closed the gap between “ serious ” and “ light ” music. He began his musical career composing complex modernist music that was appreciated by an esoteric elite, then shifted to creating music for the general public.
Biography (600 words) The son of a cantor, Kurt Weill (1900-1950) was raised in a religious Jewish home in Dessau, Germany. He took an early interest in music; his first teacher was Albert Bing, conductor at the local opera house. At eighteen, Weill went to Berlin, experiencing its political and artistic ferment firsthand.
Mar 9, 2017 · DESSAU, Germany — Tourists in this sleepy town would be hard-pressed to find any trace of Kurt Weill, the composer of “The Threepenny Opera” and other acclaimed concert and stage works, who ...
Kurt Weill, (born March 2, 1900, Dessau, Ger.—died April 3, 1950, New York, N.Y., U.S.), German-born U.S. composer. Son of a cantor, by age 15 he was working as a theatre accompanist. He studied composition briefly with Engelbert Humperdinck, and a conductor’s post gave him wide experience.
One of the most versatile and influential composers of the musical theatre in the twentieth century, Kurt Weill ( b. Dessau, Germany, March 2, 1900; d. New York, April 3, 1950 ), had two important careers, one in Germany in the 1920s, the other from his emigration to the United States in 1935 until his death.
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