Kurt Julian Weill page with free midi's to download

KURT JULIAN WEILL

2ndMarch 1900 --- 3rdApril 1950

You will find a fuller bio of this composer on the internet, I have just provided a brief details here below.

Weill was born 1900 in Dessau, Germany.  At the age of twelve, Weill started taking piano lessons, and began his first attempts at composing
music, one of his earliest composition's was written in 1913, Mi Addir, A Jewish Wedding Song. It was not until 1915 that Weill started taking
his musical lessons under Albert Bing,  who taught him piano,  composition,  music theory,  and conducting.  It was at this time that Weill had
appeared in his first performance in public on the piano, both as an accompanist and soloist.

In July 1919,  Weill had to abandoned his studies and returned to Dessau,  where he was employed as a  coach at the Friedrich-Theater under
the direction of the Kapellmeister  Hans Knappertsbusch.  During this time that he composed his orchestral suite,  in E-flat major,  symphonic
poem, based on a poem The Lay of the Love (1919). Weill went back to Berlin in around 1920, were he came to the noitice by Busoni who had
accepted him as a  master student in composition.  Weill finished his studies with Busoni in 1923,   a few years later Weill’s  began his fruitful
collaborations with Bertolt Brecht  on such works such as songspiel,  (1927),  Weill then wrote the music  and Brecht provided the libretto for
The Threepenny Opera, (1928).

Weill was forced to leave Germany after the Nazi's had taken power in 1933, he moved first to France then in connection with his music Weill
went to London in 1935 and it was later that year he went to the United States in connection with a work on The Eternal Road, that had been
commissioned by members of New York's  Jewish community and was premiered in 1937. Weill began to move away from the European style
type of compositions, and studied American popular and stage music, and composed Railroads on Parade (1939),  Weill became a naturalized
citizen of the U.S.A in 1943.

He composed Down in the Valley,(1945), he also composed various song's to support of the American war effort, Weill suffered a heart attack
shortly after his 50th birthday and died in 1950, in New York.

Last Updated on 2021
By Steven

And now for the Music

Thank David Siu for the music below. Email (dss @ po.cwru.edu)

New (3285)"Instead of Song, No.3, from A Little Threepenny, Opera". Sequenced by David Siu.

New (3286)"The Ballad of the Easy Life, No.4, from A Little Threepenny, Opera". Sequenced by David Siu.

New (3289)"Tango-Ballad, No.5a, from A Little Threepenny, Opera". Sequenced by David Siu.

New (3287)" Cannon song, No.6, from A Little Threepenny, Opera". Sequenced by David Siu.

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