Kurt Weill correspondence file, 1924-1962 (bulk, 1924-1934, 1957-1962).

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Kurt Weill correspondence file, 1924-1962 (bulk, 1924-1934, 1957-1962).

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Correspondence and associated documents. Weill's correspondent at Universal until 1938 was usually Hans Heinsheimer, but he also received letters from Alfred Kalmus. After the war he was in touch with Alfred Schlee and others (Heinsheimer having emigrated to the United States before the war). The bulk of the file for the years following Weill's death consists of copies of correspondence and related documents apparently from the files of Dr. Friedrich Karl Fromm, lawyer for the Weill estate, and including many letters from Dr. Margarethe von Erffa, representing that of Brecht.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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In 1924, with his completion of a third year of studies in Busoni's master class, performances of his Divertimento and Sinfonia sacra by the Berlin Philharmonic, other achievements, and even a "grand tour" of Italy all behind him, Kurt Weill, highly commended by his mentor, was offered an exclusive publishing contract by Universal Edition in Vienna. As a result, this publishing house gained rights over some of Weill's most successful works, including Die Dreigroschenoper. The contract remained i...

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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...