Autograph music manuscripts of Kurt Weill in the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1913-1950.

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Autograph music manuscripts of Kurt Weill in the Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1913-1950.

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Includes full scores, preliminary and final drafts in short score, drafts and rehearsal scores in vocal-score format of works from all periods of the composer's career. The beginning of the latter (1913-1916) is especially well documented--by items 1-16, from the Hans and Rita Weill Collection--though this group doesn't really form the bulk of the collection.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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

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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...