Kurt Weill: A life in pictures and documents

A iconoclast, the legendary Kurt Weill has become a figure central to the cultural life of the twentieth century, an artist know for his relentless mitigation of the tension between "high" and "low" art. He left behind a treasury of classical music and unforgettable songs, including "Mack the Knife" and "Alabama Song". Woking with Bertolt Brecht and others, he used musicals like The Threepenny Opera to address the most serious of social and political issues. Kurt Weill: A life in pictures and documents is an utterly unique and engaging document of Weill's life and accomplishments through photos and the composer's own words.

In a lavish style suitable to the subject, Kurt Weill covers the composer's entire life, from his German-Jewish heritage and early political experiences to his legendary relationship with Lotte Lenya and his late-life experiments with the "concept musical". No significant event - or song - is left out. Weill expert David Farneth brings together text and photos from public and private archives in five different countries to assemble the most extraordinary of biographical documents.

With 900 photographs many in sepia and some in color. Includes stills, musical scores, playbills, the composer's notes and other original artwork.

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Acknowledgments
Foreword by Luciano Berio
Preface by Kim H. Kowalke
Introduction by David Farneth
A brief life
1900-1918
1918-1924
1925-1928
1929-1933
1934-1940
1940-1945
1945-1950
Appendix