Kurt Weill
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Person
- Born
- 1900-03-02
- Died
- 1950-04-03
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Film & TV
Sound · Dessau, Germany
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York City, was a composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage, as well as writing a number of concert works. Over fifty years after his death, his music continues to be performed both in popular and classical contexts. In Weill's lifetime, his work was most associated with the voice of his wife, Lotte Lenya, but <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kurt+Weill">Read
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,286x
- A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 27,822x
- Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators
· 1989 · cited 17,909x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,238x
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Key facts
- Born
- Kurt Julian Weill , ( 1900-03-02 ) 2 March 1900, Dessau , Saxony
- Died
- 3 April 1950 (1950-04-03) (aged 50), New York City, New York, U.S.
- Occupation
- Composer
- Spouse
- Lotte Lenya
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 2 March 1900
- Died
- 3 April 1950
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Julian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Dessau
- Place of death
- New York City
- Spouse
- Lotte Lenya
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Berlin University of the Arts
- Languages spoken
- English language
Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Kurt Weill, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
Kurt Julian Weill (/waɪl/; German: [vaɪl]; March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) 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 wrote his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which includes 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. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933, arriving in the United States two years later. Settling in New York, he made a substantial contribution to American musical theater through works such as Lady in the Dark and Street Scene.
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