Weill library, [ca. 1900-1950]

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Weill library, [ca. 1900-1950]

Books from Kurt Weill's personal library, including music books and scores, collections of folk songs, collaborators' works, literary works, and works being considered for projects; some items are annotated.

30 linear ft.

eng,

ger,

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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...