Kurt Weill

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Kurt Julian Weill
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German-born American composer, born 2 March 1900 in Dessau, Germany and died 3 April 1950 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married twice to Lotte Lenya.
Prominent and popular composer in Germany at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. His best-known work is the Threepenny Opera, written in collaboration with Bertolt Brecht in 1928.
Kurt Weill left the Nazi regime in 1933 for Paris, London and then the USA in 1936.
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Kurt Weill, William Horn, Adam Garner (2) - Songs To Poems Of Walt Whitman (LP)

Concert Hall 1948

Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein - The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) (4 versions)

MGM Records 1954

Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill - Die Dreigroschenoper (4 versions)

Amadeo 1955

Kurt Weill - Lotte Lenya, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg - Die Dreigroschenoper / The Threepenny Opera / L'Opéra De Quat'Sous (4 versions)

Columbia Masterworks 1958

The Threepenny Opera

(LP, Album)
MGM Records 1959

Lotte Lenya - Weill* / Brecht* - Lotte Lenya In Happy End (3 versions)

Philips 1960

Kurt Weill - Bertolt Brecht - Žebrácká Opera - Výber Písní Z Hudební Hry O 3 Dějstvích (LP)

Supraphon, Gramofonový Klub 1964

Brecht* & Weill* - Gisela May - Die Sieben Todsünden (4 versions)

Deutsche Grammophon, Deutsche Grammophon 1967

Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill - L'Opera Da 3 Soldi / L'Opera Da Tre Soldi (The Threepenny Opera, Die Dreigroschenoper) (LP)

Joker (2) 1971

Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny

(3 versions)
Philips 1972

Kurt WeillDarius MilhaudArthur Weisberg Conducting Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, The* - Suite From The Threepenny Opera, La Création Du Monde (2 versions)

Nonesuch 1973

Kurt Weill / Langston Hughes / Elmer Rice - Anne Jeffreys / Polyna Stoska / Brian Sullivan (4) / Maurice Abravanel* - Street Scene (2 versions)

Columbia Special Products 1973

Bert Brecht* / Kurt Weill - 3 Groschenoper (LP)

POP75 1974

Bert Brecht* / Kurt Weill - 3 Groschen Oper (LP)

Vintage (4) 1974

Kleine Dreigroschenmusik / Mahagonny Songspiel

(LP)
Deutsche Grammophon 1975

The Two Symphonies

(Vinyl, Album)
Philips 1975

Weill* - David Atherton*, London Sinfonietta, The* - Mahagonny-Songspiel / Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (LP)

Deutsche Grammophon 1976

Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg - Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins (LP, Album, RE)

CBS 1977

Kurt Weill - Lukas Foss / Siegfried Landau - Mahagonny Songspiel / Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (LP)

Turnabout 1977

Silverlake (A Winter's Tale)

(2xLP, Album, Gat)
Nonesuch 1980

Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold* / David Epstein, M.I.T. Symphony Orchestra* - Suite From The Opera "Der Silbersee" - Schauspiel-Ouverture, Op. 4 (LP)

Turnabout 1980

Teresa Stratas / Kurt Weill - The Unknown Kurt Weill (Vinyl)

Nonesuch 1981

Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin - 'Tryout' (12", Album)

DRG Records 1983

Stratas* Sings Weill* - Y Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz - Stratas Sings Weill (2 versions)

Nonesuch 1986

Stratas* Sings Weill* - Y Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz - Stratas Sings Weill (LP)

Nonesuch 1986
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