Bertolt Brecht-Elisabeth Hauptmann papers relating to Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1930-1956.

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Bertolt Brecht-Elisabeth Hauptmann papers relating to Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1930-1956.

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Correspondence (primarily), musical sketches, and a contract. Included also are two holograph sketches of Weill--one for Edis Kebsweib hat einen Bart auf der Brust (from the incidental music for Das Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England), the other for Das Lied vom Fluss der Dinge (from his incidental music for Mann ist Mann)--and a ms. rehearsal score of Das Lied [i.e. Die Ballade] der sexuellen Hörigkeit, from the collection of the Berliner Ensemble. Finally, there is an uncompleted copy of a contract between Brecht and Weill for The righteous maiden of Sezuan and a cover letter from the Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv.

34 letters and telegrams.3 ms. scores.1 contract.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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Brecht was a German dramatist and poet. Karl Korsch was a Marxist theoretician. From the description of Correspondence with Karl Korsch, 1934-ca.1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122556373 From the guide to the Bertolt Brecht correspondence with Karl Korsch, ca. 1934-1954., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reyersbach was a pediatrician with special training in endocrinology and rheumatic diseases; she came to the U.S. in ...

Hauptmann, Elisabeth.

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Lenya, Lotte

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Born in Austria, Lenya became an actress in Zürich, then moved to Berlin where she met and married Kurt Weill. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1935, where Lenya lived until her death a few months after this interview was recorded. From the description of An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich, New City, N.Y., 1981 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 12258368...

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...