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.