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Kurt Weill (March 2, 1900 - April 3, 1950) was a German composer.
He was born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York.
After growing up in a religious Jewish family in Germany, Weill left Nazi Germany in March 1933, moved to Paris and in 1935 further on to the United States. He married actress Lotte Lenya twice: in 1926 and, after their divorce in 1933, again in 1937.
His most well known work is the Threepenny Opera.
- 1925 - Violin Concerto
- 1928 - The Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht)
- 1929 - Happy End (Bertolt Brecht)
- 1930 - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Bertolt Brecht)
- 1932 - The Pledge (Caspar Neher)
- 1933 - Der Silbersee - the Silver Lake
- 1933 - The Seven Deadly Sins (Bertolt Brecht)
- 1941 - Lady in the Dark (Moss Hart and Ira Gershwin)
- 1947 - Street Scene (Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes)
- 1949 - Lost in the Stars (Maxwell Anderson)
