Correspondence between Bertolt Brecht and Felix Bloch Erben and other materials documenting business aspects of the stage works Die Dreigroschenoper, Happy end, and Die sieben Todsünden, of Brecht and Weill, 1928-1954.

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Correspondence between Bertolt Brecht and Felix Bloch Erben and other materials documenting business aspects of the stage works Die Dreigroschenoper, Happy end, and Die sieben Todsünden, of Brecht and Weill, 1928-1954.

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Correspondence (primarily) and legal documents. The remainder of the correspondence consists of three groups of copies of originals or carbons of letters and notes: 1) those pertaining to the 1937 Paris production of Die Dreigroschenoper, including correspondence from Felix Bloch Erben's main office in Berlin to various parties in Paris involved in the production, and from S. Bianchini, agent général de la Société des Auteurs ? 2) correspondence from 1949 from Felix Bloch Erben to Brecht, Universal-Edition (in Vienna), Karl Klammer, and Kurt Weill notifying them of the cancellation of Brecht's contract (Vertriebsvertrag) with them for Die Dreigroschenoper; and 3) a letter from Jacques Companeez in Paris to Paul Martin in Munich concerning the former's adaptation of Happy end as L'ange de Soho. The legal documents are: 1) the contract for Die Dreigroschenoper between Felix Bloch Erben, Brecht, and Weill; 2) a letter from 1929 from the same publisher to Karl Klammer (translator of the ballads of François Villon used in the Dreigroschenoper libretto) agreeing to grant him a share of the proceeds; and 3) a copy of a promissory note to Bertolt Brecht signed by Elisabeth Hauptmann offering to pay him his one-third of the proceeds for Happy end from the two-thirds to be received by her (as co-author of the libretto). Finally, the collection also contains a cover letter and a 1-p. (fragmentary) finding aid for the Felix Bloch Erben-Brecht correspondence (from Fuegi).

Correspondence: 44 items.Legal documents: 3 items.

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