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Primo periodo: Germania. Scultura raffigurante Kurt Weill a Dessau. Weill nacque a Dessau, nell'odierno land tedesco della Sassonia-Anhalt, il 2 marzo del 1900 in una famiglia ebraica ashkenazita [1], terzogenito dei quattro figli di Albert Weill ( 1867 - 1950 ), chazan della sinagoga di Dessau, e di Emma Ackermann ( 1872 - 1955 ), una casalinga.
15 apr 2024 · Kurt Weill (born March 2, 1900, Dessau, Germany—died April 3, 1950, New York, New York, U.S.) was a German-born American composer who created a revolutionary kind of opera of sharp social satire in collaboration with the writer Bertolt Brecht.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Family and childhood. Weill was born on March 2, 1900, [6] the third of four children to Albert Weill (1867–1950) and Emma Weill (née Ackermann; 1872–1955). He grew up in a religious Jewish family in the "Sandvorstadt", the Jewish quarter in Dessau in Saxony, where his father was a cantor. [7] .
Personal Life & Death. Kurt Weill married Lotte Lenya, an Austrian singer, in 1926. Following their struggles to stay back in Germany, the couple divorced in 1933. However, they met again in the USA and got married again and remained together until 1950.
The Life & Career of Kurt Weill. Overview and insight relating to Kurt Weill's life and career, through a media-rich timeline, detailed chronology and prose biography.
Kurt Weill was born on 2 March 1900 in Dessau, Germany. The son of a cantor, Weill displayed musical talent early on. By the time he was twelve, he was composing and mounting concerts and dramatic works in the hall above his family’s quarters in the Gemeindehaus.
Through Kaiser, Weill met the actress Lotte Lenya in Berlin in 1924, and they married in January 1926. They were divorced from 1933-1937, but they remarried and stayed together until his death. Weill’s early works show the influence of post-romanticism, expressionism, even atonality.
