File no. 3553, pertaining to the Kurt Weill estate, 1950-1961.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

File no. 3553, pertaining to the Kurt Weill estate, 1950-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122537830

Legal and financial documents. Folder 6 contains memoranda, while 7 has a certificate of letters testamentary and associated documents. Folder 8 presents an inventory and Folder 9 a "statement of amount due to the Playwrights Producing Co. from the estate..." and a "record of income v. expenses for years 1941-50 inclusive." Folder 10 contains letters pertaining to the portrait of Weill painted by Arthur Kaufmann. The eleventh folder has 5 documents relating to "musical compositions, copyrights, etc." No. 12 ("Taxes") contains state and federal income tax returns for 1950. Folder 13, labeled "Translations of Letters," groups together letters and accounts from Universal-Edition (Weill's publisher in Vienna) concerning royalties and a list of his works published by them. The fourteenth, and last, folder is labelled "Miscellaneous papers" and contains letters re. the Playwrights' Producing Co. stock, compositions of Weill published abroad, One touch of Venus, and Die Dreigroschenoper, as well as various ms. notes.

ca. 237 items (14 folders).

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6754147

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6674d11 (corporateBody)

John F. Wharton was an attorney, a founding partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and a member of the Playwrights' Producing Company, a consortium which included among its members Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson. In these capacities as well as others Wharton played an active and varied role in cultural (particularly theatrical), social and economic affairs in mid-century New York City. Norman Zelenko was one of his partners. From the descri...

Wharton, John Franklin, 1894-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c03qj7 (person)

Kaufmann, Arthur, (Painter).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xx23gs (person)

Lenya, Lotte

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68g8mvt (person)

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...

Playwrights' Producing Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69m1201 (corporateBody)

The Playwrights' Producing Company, a theatrical production company also know as the Playwrights' Company, was founded in New York in 1938. The original group of partners were playwrights Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman (withdrew in 1946), Elmer Rice, Robert Sherwood, and Sidney Howard (d. 1939). John R. Wharton supplied legal and management advice. Kurt Weill joined the Company in 1946 and Robert Anderson joined in 1953. The group produced plays written by its members and other playwrights. The ...

Zelenko, Norman

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69m1vt9 (person)

Weill, Kurt

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rr1x51 (person)

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...