Library, [191-]-1950.

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Library, [191-]-1950.

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With few exceptions, these are books acquired by Weill after his immigration to the United States, because he was forced to leave most of his belongings in Berlin when he fled Germany in 1933. Authors who wrote librettos and/or texts set by Weill are well represented among the books (e.g. Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, Ogden Nash, and Ben Hecht). Also represented are authors whose works Weill considered setting (e.g. Melville, Ernst Toller, Robert Louis Stevenson, Balzac, and George Bernard Shaw), musicologists, cultural historians, and biographers (e.g. Alfred Einstein, Francis Toye, Charles Sanford Terry, Jacques Barzun, Marchette Chute), and authors of non-fiction (e.g. Paul de Kruif, Robert Graves, and Matthew Josephson). Finally, there are a small number of reference works. Many of the books are presentation copies from the authors. Very few are annotated by Weill. Among the scores are 18 collections of American folksongs, 13 full and vocal scores of operas by other composers (10 of 11 of them brought from Epe), 10 of stage works by Weill (8 of these bound in undyed linen), 12 miniature scores of orchestral and chamber works (among these, one of Bartók's First String Quartet with annotations by Weill), a volume of Mozart Piano Sonatas, and several volumes of Jewish liturgical music.

ca. 250 books (titles)56 scores.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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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...

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...