Berlin im licht-song de kurt weill biography

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900^[1] – April 3, 1950^[1]) was a Germancomposer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States.

Berlin im licht-song de kurt weill biography

He was a leading composer for the stage who was most well known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his most well known work The Threepenny Opera, a Marxist critique of capitalism, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife".

Weill was a socialist^[2] who held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose.^[3] He also wrote a number of works for the concert hall, as well as several Judaism themed pieces.

Personal life

Kurt Julian Weill was born on March 2, 1900,^[4] the third of four children to Albert Weill (1867–1950) and Emma Weill née Ackermann (1872–1955).

He grew up in a religious Jewish family in the "Sandvorstadt", the Jewish quarter in Dessau, Germany, where his father was a cantor.^[1] At the ag