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Kurt Weill is best known for The Threepenny Opera, written with Bertolt Brecht in 1928, and for the song "Mack the Knife" it contains. His American works, including Street Scene, Lady in the Dark, and Knickerbocker Holiday, are also widely performed, and he received the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score for Street Scene.
Weill fled Nazi Germany in March 1933. As a prominent Jewish composer with known left-wing sympathies, he was officially denounced, and the Nazi authorities criticized and interfered with performances of his stage works. He had no option but to leave.
Weill's wife was the singer and actress Lotte Lenya. He first met her at the house of the dramatist Georg Kaiser in the summer of 1924. They married in 1926, divorced in 1933, and remarried in 1937. After Weill's death she founded the Kurt Weill Foundation in 1962 to preserve and promote his work.
Weill and Brecht were collaborators on several major works, including The Threepenny Opera (1928), Happy End (1929), Der Jasager (1930), and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930). Their working partnership ended in 1930 over political disagreements. They briefly reunited in Paris in 1933 to create the ballet The Seven Deadly Sins, and again during World War II for the anti-Nazi song "Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?"
Kurt Weill was born on the 2nd of March 1900 in Dessau, Germany. He died on the 3rd of April 1950 in New York City, shortly after his fiftieth birthday, from a heart attack. He was buried at Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York.
Kurt Weill won the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score for Street Scene, his opera based on a play by Elmer Rice with lyrics by Langston Hughes. He was unique among Broadway composers of his era in insisting on writing his own orchestrations.