Kurt Weill

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title: Kurt Weill
text: Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote seve
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description: German composer (1900–1950)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill
date created: 2002-05-02T10:54:39Z
date modified: 2024-09-02T23:59:47Z
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