Kurt Weill
- 1936 – Johnny Johnson (Paul Green)
- 1937 – The Eternal Road (Desmond Carter, first, unfinished version in German with a text by Franz Werfel, directed by Max Reinhardt (theatre director))
- 1938 – Knickerbocker Holiday (Maxwell Anderson)
- 1938 – Railroads on Parade (Edward Hungerford)
- 1940 – Ballad of Magna Carta. Cantata for narrator and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra (Maxwell Anderson)
- 1940 – Lady in the Dark (Moss Hart and Ira Gershwin)
- 1941 – Fun to be Free Pageant
- 1942 – And what was sent to the Soldier's Wife? (Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?). Song for voice and piano (Bertolt Brecht)
- 1942 – Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. Patriotic song arrangements by Weill for narrator, chorus, and orchestra
- 1942 – Schickelgruber. Song for voice and piano (Howard Dietz)
- 1943 – One Touch of Venus (Ogden Nash)
- 1945 – The Firebrand of Florence (Ira Gershwin)
- 1945 – Where Do We Go From Here? (Ira Gershwin)
- 1945 – Down in the Valley
- 1947 – Hatikvah Arrangement of the Israeli National Anthem for orchestra
- 1947 – Four Walt Whitman Songs for voice and orchestra (or piano)
- 1947 – Street Scene (Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes) - Tony Award for Best Original Score
- 1948 – Love Life (Alan Jay Lerner)
- 1949 – Lost in the Stars (Maxwell Anderson)
- 1950 – Huckleberry Finn (Maxwell Anderson) Unfinished.
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Discography
- Eastside Sinfoniette: Don't Be Afraid (True Classical 2003)
- Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins & Berlin Theatre Songs (Sony 1997)
- The Threepenny Opera. Lotte Lenya and Others, conducted by Wilhelm Brückner-Ruggeberg (Columbia 1987)
- Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Lotte Lenya/ Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (Sony 1990)
- Berliner Requiem / Violin Concerto op.12 / Vom Tod im Walde. Ensemble Musique Oblique/ Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi, 1997)
- Kleine Dreigroschenmusik / Mahagonny Songspiel / Happy End / Berliner Requiem / Violin Concerto op.12. London Sinfonietta, David Atherton (Deutsche Grammophon, 1999)
- Kurt Weill à Paris, Marie Galante and other works. Loes Luca, Ensemble Dreigroschen, directed by Giorgio Bernasconi, assai, 2000
- The Eternal Road (Highlights). Berliner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester/ Gerard Schwarz (Naxos, 2003)
- Kazik Staszewski: Melodie Kurta Weill'a i coś ponadto (SP Records, 2001)
- Youkali: Art Songs by Satie, Poulenc and Weill. Patricia O'Callaghan (Marquis, 2003)
- Complete String Quartets. Leipziger Streichquartett (MDG 307 1071-2)
- Die sieben Todsünden; Chansons B.Fassbaender, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR, C.Garben (HMA 1951420)
- Happy End (Ghostlight Records, 2007) - the cast recording of the 2006 American Conservatory Theatre production from San Francisco
- The Unknown Kurt Weill (Nonesuch LP D-79019, 1981) - Teresa Stratas, soprano, Richard Woitach, piano. Track list: "Nanna's Lied" (1939), "Complainte de la Seine" (1934), "Klops-Lied" (1925), "Berlin im Licht-song" (1928), "Und was Bekam des Soldaten Weib?" (1943), "Die Muschel von Margate: Petroleum Song" (1928), "Wie Lange Noch?" (1944), "Youkali: Tango Habanera" (1935?), "Der Abschiedsbrief" (1933?), "Es Regnet" (1933), "Buddy on the Nightshift" (1942), "Schickelgruber" (1942), "Je ne t'aime pas" (1934), "Das Lied von den Braunen Inseln" (1928)
Tributes:
- Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill - Produced by Hal Wilner, with performances by various pop (Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Sting) and jazz (Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, John Zorn) artists. (A&M Records, 1987)
- September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (performed by Elvis Costello, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and others) (Sony Music, 1997)
- Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia: Round About Weill (ECM, 2005)
- The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill (Pias, April 1991), Studio recording of the songs performed live in 1989.
- Ben Bagley's Kurt Weill Revisited and Kurt Weill Revisited, Vol. 2 on the Painted Smiles label boasts rare titles of his, sung by all-star casts, including Chita Rivera, Ann Miller, Estelle Parsons, John Reardon, Tammy Grimes, Nell Carter, and Jo Sullivan, among others.
Individual Songs:
- The Doors, The Doors, (Elektra, 1967). Including Alabama Song
- Bryan Ferry. As Time Goes By (Virgin, 1999). Including "September Song"
- Tom Robinson, Last Tango: Midnight At The Fringe, (Castaway Northwest: CNWVP 002, 1988). Including "Surabaya Johnny"
- David Bowie recorded Alabama Song
- Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth recorded "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" (from One Touch of Venus) on her album Let Yourself Go.
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References
- ^ a b c d e f "Kurt Weill Dead; Composer, Was 50" (PDF, fee required), The New York Times, The New York Times Co., 4 April 1950, p. 28. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
- ^ Stephen Hinton, Jürgen Schebera (editors). Musik und musikalisches Theater - Gesammelte Schriften, 2000: Schott Musik International, Mainz - ISBN 3-7957-0423-5, p 540
- ^ Hinton & Schebera, pp 540–541
- ^ Hinton & Schebera, pp 541
- ^ Hinton & Schebera, pp 541–542
- ^ Hinton & Schebera, p 542
- ^ Hinton & Schebera, pp 542–543
- ^ Hinton & Schebera, p 543
- ^ Hinton & Schebera, pp 208–209
- ^ Tony Award for Best Original Score
- ^ Photo of Weill's gravestone
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Further reading
- David Drew. Kurt Weill: A Handbook (Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1987). ISBN 0-520-05839-9.
- Kim H. Kowalke. A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1986). ISBN 0-300-03514-4.
- Ronald Sanders. The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill (New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980). ISBN 0-03-019411-3.
- Donald Spoto. Lenya A Life (Little, Brown and Company 1989)Very heavy on Weill history
- Lys Symonette & Kim H. Kowalke (ed. & trans.) Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya (University of California Press 1996)
- (German) David Drew (Editor), Über Kurt Weill (Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1975) Excellent collection of texts, including an introduction by David Drew and including texts by Theodor W. Adorno
- (German) Jürgen Schebera, Kurt Weill (Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2000)
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External links
- Kurt Weill Foundation, including a detailed list works
- Schott Music
- Kurt Weill at the Internet Broadway Database
- Kurt Weill at the Internet Movie Database
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See also
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