Materials relating to performances of Kurt Weill's Violin concerto in Europe, 1925-[ca.1980] (bulk, 1925-1932).

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Materials relating to performances of Kurt Weill's Violin concerto in Europe, 1925-[ca.1980] (bulk, 1925-1932).

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Clippings, programs, one photograph. Frenkel kept elaborate scrapbooks documenting his performances in Europe, including about ten performances of Weill's violin concerto from 1925-1930. The collection includes an obituary of Frenkel from an unidentified magazine, an autographed photo of Weill from 1928, advertisements for Frenkel's recording of the Sieben Stücke nach der Dreigroschenoper, and primarily programs and clippings documenting performances of the Violin concerto.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6706386

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Frenkel, Stefan.

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Stefan Frenkel (1902-1979), violinist. Born in Warsaw, he had established an international reputation as a soloist by the late 1920's. He was especially well-known for performing works of contemporary composers, notably Schnabel, Ysaÿe, Hindemith, Prokofieff, Bartók, and Weill. In 1929-30, he arranged seven songs from Die Dreigroschenoper (music by Kurt Weill) for violin and piano. Forced to leave Germany in 1933, he served briefly as concertmaster in the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande before ...

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...