Publishers' catalogs in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1926-[ongoing] (bulk, after 1980).

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Publishers' catalogs in the collections of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1926-[ongoing] (bulk, after 1980).

Catalogs, bulletins, schedules. Only publishers and licensers of Kurt Weill's music are represented: Universal-Edition, Schott, European-American Music, Josef Weinberger, Music Theatre International; primarily UE and Schott. Universal-Edition catalogs from the 1920's 1950's and 1960's; complete calendars of performances from UE and Schott in the 1980's and 1990's; other promotional materials from the 1980's and 1990's.

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

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Universal-Edition

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In 1924, with his completion of a third year of studies in Busoni's master class, performances of his Divertimento and Sinfonia sacra by the Berlin Philharmonic, other achievements, and even a "grand tour" of Italy all behind him, Kurt Weill, highly commended by his mentor, was offered an exclusive publishing contract by Universal Edition in Vienna. As a result, this publishing house gained rights over some of Weill's most successful works, including Die Dreigroschenoper. The contract remained i...

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...

B. Schotts Söhne (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)

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