Library, 1950-1981.

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Library, 1950-1981.

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The collection is comprised of books collected by Lenya and/or George Davis after Kurt Weill's death in 1950. (The books she owned with Weill are filed in Weill's Library, Series 90.) It includes books of literature of all types, historical studies, art books, and reference works. The largest group of books related to a single person is formed by the two shelves of titles by or about Bertolt Brecht. Many are inscribed, presentation copies. Some relate directly to her work, such as an edition of Kafka short stories with annotations made in preparation for her recordings of them.

441 books (titles)6 scores.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6860200

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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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...

Davis, George, 1906-1957

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George Davis began his career as a writer, publishing his only novel, The opening of a door, in 1931 while living in Paris. He returned to the U.S. shortly thereafter and began working as a fiction editor for various magazines, notably Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle, and exerted substantial influence on American taste and popular literary culture, "discovering" such writers as Truman Capote and Carson McCullers. During the 1940's, he and Gypsy Rose Lee established an artists' commune of sorts ...