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English
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For the first time, Ethan Mordden chronicles the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in "Love Song", a dual biography that unfolds against the background of the tumultous twentieth century, scored to music from Weil's greatest triumphs: "Knickerbocker Holiday", "Lost in the Stars", "Lady in the Dark", "Happy End", "One Touch of Venus" and "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny". The romance of Weill, the Jewish cantor's son, and Lenya, the...
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Criterion collection volume 405
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Deutsch
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"Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London, The threepenny opera follows underworld antihero Mackie Messer (a.k.a. Mack the Knife) as he tries to woo Polly Peachum and elude the authorities"--Container.
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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
©1982
Language
English
Description
This book is about the life of Kurt Weil, a German composer who spent his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, including The Threepenny Opera, a Marxist critique of capitalism, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife".
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Series
Works.Critical reports volume ser. 1, 5
Publisher
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Deutsch
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Series
Studies in musicology volume no. 14
Publisher
UMI Research Press
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Weill covers the composer's entire life, from his German-Jewish heritage and early political experiences to his legendary relationship with Lotte Lenya and his late-life experiments with the "concept musical." No significant event - or song - is left out. Farneth brings together text and photos from public and private archives in five different countries to assemble this biographical document. With 900 photographs, including stills, musical...
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Series
Works volume ser. 1, 18
Publisher
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Kurt Weill is one of the most celebrated of twentieth-century composers, but one whose more serious work is still little known. We know Weill for The Threepenny Opera, Mahagony, and The Seven Deadly Sins; for 'Mack the Knife' and 'September Song'; for his marriage to Lotte Lenya and his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. This groundbreaking book, written by the foremost authority on Weill, provides the first definitive survey of his life and work...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Kurt Weill--the famed composer of The Threepenny Opera, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Knickerbocker Holiday, One Touch of Venus, Lost in the Stars, and many other musical works--led a life as rich and complex as the music for which he is so justly acclaimed. This engaging and lavishly illustrated book draws on a wealth of previously unexplored written and pictorial material to present a biography of Weill that is the most up to date and...
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Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
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"In this first full-length biography of Kurt Weill to incorporate his unpublished family letters and early compositions, as well as testimony from those who knew him, Ronald Taylor traces the turbulent path that led this intriguing composer from Berlin to Broadway." "Taylor considers the successive phases of Weill's life and work against the background of his Jewish roots and Germany's agitated, tragic interwar years. The son of a cantor and schoolteacher,...