kurt weill

     

This "Threepenny Opera" composer studied with Engelbert Humperdinck -- the composer, not the singer

Trivia about kurt weill

  • He wrote the music for "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"; Brecht wrote the libretto
  • In 1928 he & Bertolt Brecht "jazzed" up "The Beggar's Opera" to create "The Threepenny Opera"
  • Singer Lotte Lenya, whom he married in 1926 & in 1937

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