Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Bio
Kurt Julian Weill was born in the Jewish quarter of Dessau, Germany. He studied piano as a boy and attended the Berliner Hochschule für Musik. He furthered his studies with Busoni and Jamach and became a sought-after director for different opera houses. His prominence and Jewishness led him to be denounced by the Nazis and he fled, first to Paris and then New York. He composed a number of popular show tunes and stage works in the United States and naturalized as a citizen in 1943.
Music
Symphony No. 2 Fantaisie symphonique
Symphony No. 1
The Threepenny Opera
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
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