Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York, was a German composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage as well as a composer of concert works.

List of selected works

1920-1927

• 1920 – Sonata for Cello and Piano
• 1921 – Symphony No.1 for orchestra
• 1923 – String Quartet op. 8
• 1923 – Quodlibet. Suite for orchestra from the pantomime Zaubernacht, op. 9
• 1923 – Frauentanz: sieben Gedichte des Mittelalters for soprano, flute, viola, clarinet, horn and bassoon, op. 10
• 1924 – Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, op. 12
• 1926 – Der Protagonist, op.15 (Opera in one act, text by Georg Kaiser)
• 1927 – Der Neue Orpheus. Cantata for soprano, solo violin and orchestra op.16 (text by Yvan Goll)
• 1927 – Royal Palace op.17 (Opera in one act, text by Yvan Goll)
• 1927 – Der Zar lässt sich photographieren op.21 (Opera in one act, text by Georg Kaiser)
• 1927 – Mahagonny (Songspiel) (Bertolt Brecht)

Works 1928-1935

• 1928 – Berlin im Licht Song. March for military band (wind ensemble) or voice and piano
• 1928 – Die Dreigroschenoper, or the Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht)
• 1928 – Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music), Suite for wind orchestra based on the Threepenny Opera
• 1928 – Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen for chorus a cappella or voice and piano (Bertolt Brecht)
• 1928 – Das Berliner Requiem (Berlin Requiem). Cantata for three male voices and wind orchestra (Bertolt Brecht)
• 1929 – Der Lindberghflug (first version). Cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra. Music by Weill and Paul Hindemith and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
• 1929 – Happy End (Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht)
• 1929 – Der Lindberghflug (second version). Cantata for tenor, baritone, and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra. Music entirely by Weill and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
• 1930 – Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, or Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Bertolt Brecht)
• 1930 – Der Jasager (Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht)
• 1932 – Die Bürgschaft, or The Pledge (Caspar Neher)
• 1933 – Der Silbersee, or Silver Lake
• 1933 – Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger, or The Seven Deadly Sins. Ballet chanté for voices and orchestra (Bertolt Brecht)
• 1934 – Marie galante (book and lyrics by Jacques Deval)
• 1934 – Symphony No. 2 for orchestra
• 1935 – Der Kuhhandel, or My Kingdom for a Cow (Robert Vambery) (unfinished)

Works 1936-1950

• 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
• 1943 – One Touch of Venus (Ogden Nash)
• 1945 – The Firebrand of Florence (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)
• 1948 – Love Life (Alan Jay Lerner)
• 1949 – Lost in the Stars (Maxwell Anderson)
• 1950 – Huckleberry Finn (Maxwell Anderson) Unfinished.