Music manuscripts and sketches, 1914-1950.

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Music manuscripts and sketches, 1914-1950.

Music manuscripts and sketches of music by Kurt Weill, including full scores, vocal scores, orchestral parts, copyists' manuscripts, and sketches. Compositions include ZAUBERNACHT, DER PROTAGONIST, ROYAL PALACE, NA UND?, DER ZAR LÄSST SICH PHOTOGRAPHIEREN, MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL, DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER, AUFSTEIG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY, HAPPY END, DER JASAGER, DIE BÜRGSCHAFT, DIE SILBERSEE, DIE SIEBEN TODSÜNDEN, DER KUHHANDEL, DER WEG DER VERHEISSUNG, THE ETERNAL ROAD, JOHNNY JOHNSON, DAVY CROCKETT, KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY, RAILROADS ON PARADE, BALLAD OF MAGNA CARTA, ULYSSES AFRICANUS, LADY IN THE DARK, ONE TOUCH OF VENUS, THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE, STREET SCENE, DOWN IN THE VALLEY, LOVE LIFE, LOST IN THE STARS, HUCKLEBERRY FINN, YOU AND ME, THE RIVER IS BLUE, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?, SALUTE TO FRANCE, DER LINDBERGHFLUG, MARIE GALANTE, WE WILL NEVER DIE, A FLAG IS BORN, SYMPHONY NO. 1, SYMPHONY NO. 2, DIVERTIMENTO, OP. 5; CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND WINDS, OP. 12; BERLIN IM LICHT, KLEINE DREIGROSCHENMUSIK, RECORDARE, OP. 11; DER NEUE ORPHEUS, VON TOD IM WALD, DAS BERLINER REQUIEM, ZU POTSDAM UNTER DEN EICHEN, DIE LEGENDE VOM TOTEN SOLDATEN, KIDDUSH, WALT WHITMAN SONGS, STRING QUARTET, B MINOR; and STRING QUARTET, OP. 8.

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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...