Weill, Kurt

Weill, Kurt – Kleine Dreigroschenmusik für Blasorchester

(b. Dessau, 2 March 1900 – d. New York, 3 April 1950)

Ouvertüre p.1
Die Moritat von Mackie Messer p.6
Anstatt daß-Song p.12
Die Ballade vom angenehmen Leben p.17
Pollys Lied p.26
Tango-Ballade p.28
Kanonen-Song p.36
Dreigroschen-Finale p.45

Preface
Kurt Weill was born in Dessau. His father was Cantor of the local synagogue and he had two brothers and one sister. After studies in Berlin, he worked as a jobbing conductor in Dessau and Leipzig before returning to Berlin to take lessons with Busoni, who was an important influence on him. During the 1920s Weill wrote both serious concert works and several one-act operas. His celebrated collaboration with Bertold Brecht began with the Mahagonny-Songspiel (1927), a forerunner of the later full-length opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1930). Their greatest success was Die Dreigroschenoper (1928). In 1933, following the Nazi seizure of power, Weill left Germany. After some time in France, where he wrote his last collaboration with Brecht, Die sieben Todsünden (1933), he moved to the USA, spending the rest of his life there. In the new home he worked on Der Weg der Verheissung (1934), a pageant about Jewish history, then turning to write musicals. Lady in the Dark (1941), One Touch of Venus (1943), Street Scene (1947) and Lost in the Stars (1949) were among his successes. After his death, his widow, the singer Lotte Lenya, did a great deal to revive his German theatre works, to which he had become indifferent. Thanks to her recordings, and those on the Capriccio label, they are now better known than his American ones. …

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