Sheet music for songs by Kurt Weill in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1928-[ongoing].

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Sheet music for songs by Kurt Weill in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1928-[ongoing].

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Printed music for individual songs, mostly in simplified arrangements for single voice with piano, with illustrated covers. Includes some independently composed songs and selections from Weill's best-known shows--Die Dreigroschenoper, Happy end, Lady in the dark, One touch of Venus, and others. For some shows (notably Die Dreigroschenoper), there are several printings of the same numbers from different decades. Lesser-known shows are represented as well, such as two numbers from A kingdom for a cow (1935), four or five numbers from The firebrand of Florence (1945), one number from Railroads on parade (1939), two numbers from the film You and me (1938), and several numbers from Marie galante (1934). Includes some translations.

<22> folders (ca. <0.5> linear ft.).

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6681567

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Weill-Lenya Research Center.

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Weill, Kurt

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As a result of the success of his Broadway musical Lady in the dark in 1941, German-born composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singing actress Lotte Lenya, were able to buy "Brook House," in Rockland County, New York, moving there during their sixth year in the United States. From Brook House, and a couple of addresses in Los Angeles during his trips there, Weill kept in touch, until a month before his death, with his parents, who had emigrated to Israel in 1935. From the description...